Why domestic violence still exist?

Philippines
April 26, 2010 9:39pm CST
Why domestic violence still exist nowadays even though there are many laws that's given to protect women or wives from their violent partner? why women can't seem to stay away from it as soon as possible and why they still prefer their partner to abused them? What do you think is the problem? Is domestic violence in your country is still a big issue?
4 responses
@chiyosan (30186)
• Philippines
29 Apr 10
i think domestic violence exists still up to this time because men still thinks and still feels that they are the more dominant specie in this world. If a woman submits fully, they abuse this and does not return the love by being a good provider. more often than not, people or men who abuses their wives and family or children are those who are not even providing well - they still tend to make their wives work hard for them and asks their children to find the money! I think this has to change and that women step up for their lives and for their rights!
@weasel81 (2496)
• Australia
27 Apr 10
it take a lot of guts to stand up and go do something about a partner who is volient to you. i'm speaking from experience, i ended it by taking an avo out on him a few weeks ago. it is protecting me and my son. sometimes you can pick it in them, it wasn't until after i had my son it started. i should have gone then but thought of my son and had to give it a go. you find things out about families down the track, dv will run in them. i figured next time i have a b.f. i'd ask and family member about something like that. i think it also steems back to the old days when men could get away with things, and it's contuined down the line. my partner hated it when i would become more assertive. that's when i'd get hurt, if i was a good girl and did as i was told everything would be fine. u could say i was his slave at times. i had to fight for everything i wanted to do, even go to my parents place. i was accussed of an affair most the time, and what ever else he could come up with. i told an old school friend i'd taken an avo out on him, and she was shocked. cause he always came across to her as filrty. and not one to do that sort of thing. it took me over 12 months to get the strenght up to do it, then when i did take the avo out, i didn't sit there thinking to much about it, i just went to the police station and filed the charge. i'm not backing down on letting him off the hook about it all, i know his bro was abusive and so on back. he did wrong and he can learn from his mistake. i don't know how much of a problem it is, it's there just if we see it or not.
@p3ks626 (6538)
• Philippines
27 Apr 10
Maybe some women just dont learn from other women's experiences. I dont know what it is that they need to see or need to know for this thing to be stopped. Sometimes I think that some women could be so stupid that they would just allow their partners to hit them. I think they should never allow it. When their partners would try to hit them, they should hit the partner back.
• Philippines
27 Apr 10
There were times when a woman do not think first before saying something to her husband and it hurts him. This is women's verbal abuse. Now, men who do not let themselves be the loser, act accordingly and abuse women physically (because men cannot abuse women verbally as expertly as women do). It is a balancing act I guess. If women stop saying false things with men then rest assured the violence against women would recess noticeably. After saying insulting things to men, women feel good even though what they said was false. It is not that hard to find something of a retaliation for men.