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Silence will not end domestic violence, your voice will. Speak up. Your silence is doing more harm than good. End the cycle of violence NOW.
Silence will not end the cycle of domestic violence, your voice will. Speak up. Your silence is doing more harm than good. End it NOW.
The vicious cycle of domestic violence. A reality that remains confined to hushed tones and behind closed doors. It is not always physical; so the scars are not visible. But it is there; the sneaky monster is there and escaping it is easier said than done. The psychological manipulations; the sight of the child; the family’s reputation!
Oh! There’s too much at stake! No! I can’t speak up!
So what do I do? I hide. No, not myself, the scars!
There! There they go. Safely tugged behind the smiles.
But what about the eyes? The eyes that see it all, every day, every night?
The eyes of your boy that saw how daddy silenced mommy by throwing a glass at her just because the milk was not warm enough! He now knows how to silence his ‘woman’!
The eyes of your girl that saw how mommy was manipulated by daddy into believing that she got hit because it was her fault. She now knows how to be silenced by her ‘man’!
Did the silence help?
Watch this video that won the FIRST place in the Action Against Gender Based Violence (GBV) film festival by U.S. Consulate General Chennai: “Silence the Violence” – it’s not just the spouse who suffers.
This video is a grim reminder that by choosing ‘silence’, you are not helping anyone — neither yourself nor your loved ones. #DontBeSilentSpeakUp
Image: U.S. Consulate General Chennai
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Before expecting the daughter in law to love, respect and accept the new family, it is only fair that the family demonstrates all of these first.
If you are a married Indian woman, one of the first words you hear from your in laws is that you are now a daughter of the house. How true is that statement though? Are daughters in law really treated as daughters or is this only lip service?
A friend recently confided how hurt she felt when she wanted to visit her in-laws along with her husband but was told not to, because the in-laws wanted time alone with their son. Naturally, she was taken aback since she had always been fed this trope – that she was the daughter, not the daughter in law. Why then this sudden keeping at arm’s distance? Would a son in law ever be told not to accompany his wife on her visit to her parents because they wanted quality time with their daughter? That is unimaginable in a patriarchal society.
It is ok to want time alone with the married offspring but how does that meld into the Indian family system, where independent choices are less important than the whole family coming together?
My husband returns home tired after working & travelling. I, like other working women, return home refreshed after enjoying full day at office!
I am a working woman and mother of a 2 year old daughter. People say I am irresponsible and lazy because I have a house-help.
Yes, I’m irresponsible and don’t have any work. Except checking what groceries needs to be refilled and ordering them for home delivery, washing my and my husband’s clothes, drying and folding them, getting the work-wear clothes ironed, keeping clothes in place, cleaning bathrooms and toilets, changing bedsheets, dusting windows occasionally, hand washing my daughter’s soiled clothes in hot water, bathing my daughter twice, feeding my daughter breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Rest other work like cooking and house cleaning done by the house-help and my husband takes care of getting fruits and vegetables from the market every week. So I don’t have any work except those few mentioned earlier.
Union Minister Smiriti Irani has denied claims that the lockdown led to an increase in cases of domestic violence against women. But is it true?
According to a report published in Times Of India, while addressing a TiE talk event hosted through a virtual platform on Sunday, Union Minister Smriti Irani was questioned about the increase in domestic violence during the lockdown, and the inability of the survivors to make complaints.
On this, the Minister said, “It is false. Every state has a police line functioning. We have one-stop crisis centres across every district of every State.” She further added that it’s not like every man is beating a woman in his house in India, and that the government is doing its part, having provided rehabilitation facilities not only for women but also for children.
Women are often urged to stay in a broken marriage with domestic violence 'for the sake of the kids'. Is this really advisable?
Women are often urged to stay in a broken marriage with domestic violence ‘for the sake of the kids’. Is this really advisable?
Don’t break your marriage. What will people say?
You have to live in this society. We are in India not in any foreign country and we have some values, culture and tradition. How can you just ignore that?