Domestic violence is a reality for women worldwide, but many countries still consider it to be acceptable. Russia just passed a law decriminalizing it.
In India “one in ten child deaths under the age of one in India can be attributed to domestic violence against the mother during the marriage.”
And women are socialized to accept domestic violence as part of married life.
"Women are socialised early on to submit to unfair treatment and even violence.
“It’s ingrained with them from the beginning that they have to ‘adjust’ to whatever their lot is, because marriage is a must, marriage is for life, that your husband is akin to a god to you, and that without him you’re nothing,” says Flavia Agnes, a lawyer whose experience of domestic violence inspired her to fight for women’s rights."
"The programming is so effective that a higher proportion of women, compared with men, find wife-beating justifiable under some circumstances, according to the NHFS-III. Beatings are considered acceptable by more than 50 percent of both sexes.
