Comments on: Domestic Violence: A Global Terror in the Home

By: Mugisho Ndabuli

Mugisho Ndabuli — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:47:11 +0000

Thank you for sharing this with us here though it is awful. You gave a good decoration of the story although naughty.
This happens everywhere though in different contexts.
It has been a cycle that some men have made ti a rule worldwide to beat women. Why do they misbehave this way? Up to now we have no appropriate response but some of them claim to correct women and others do it by nature or following their background. Women do not get married to lose their freedom and rights. Batterers should let women enough room to breathe and to express their feelings. We do condemn these repellent attitudes and behaviors.

By: DorothyL

DorothyL — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:13:39 +0000

A note for Maria….

Thank you for sharing this link with us. What very inspiring and emotional artwork.

It is amazing how true talent can display such emotion through a birds eye view…so to speak!

Very nicely done!

~D~

By: admin

admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:21:34 +0000

Chris J,
What you have done in your comment was to indeed raise awareness. This may go on in many countries, including the States, but so little is heard of it; consequently it continues. Thank you for sharing this heart-breaking story.

By: Chris J

Chris J — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:56:38 +0000

These honour killings happen everywhere and are not restricted to the country of origin.

In the early seventies, I worked in a bank branch in a community with one predominant ethnic group. A father and mother had their son kill their daughter, her husband, and their infant child because the young woman had married someone other than her parents’ choice for her. After a long separation, the older generation asked for a reconciliation and to see the baby and the young woman’s brother planted a bomb which went off several hours after they left.

I know so much about this because everyone in the community knew all about it. Bank customers told the manager and staff that this was a good thing. The ethnic community closed ranks on this, and I think charges were laid many years later, but I’m not entirely sure.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:51:38 +0000

Maria,
I like your art, particularly the paintings on domestic violence. I like your use of birds in the depiction.

By: Maria

Maria — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:12:35 +0000

You all check the amazing art work about domestic violence and violence against woman at artwedeliver.com.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:59:46 +0000

DorothyL,
What happens in other cultures is indeed frightening. The fact that horrid abuse, battering and violence occurs in this country is a pox on our nation. Let’s hope that through awareness and raising of conscience, we can help to have a positive impact for those who suffer. Thanks for sharing your insights, D.

By: DorothyL

DorothyL — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:10:11 +0000

Ug…this topic sets my bad side awry…in a quick.

I will never understand where these messed up human traditions began…all of these countries are basically religious extremists and they totally contradict anything the bible depicts about the respect for the female.

I am thankful every day that I was not born in any of these countries…it is bad enough in our own civilized country that we have so much abuse and killings of the female gender.

This leads to why it is vital that woman stop advertising themselves as sex objects as a false sense of acceptance and/or profits. It is doing nothing but putting all of womankind at a risk of being disrespected which is where and when abuse begins.

If one respects themselves…others will follow suit.

Thanks so much Cher for this much needed post of awareness of abuse on women.

~D~

By: admin

admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:38:25 +0000

ONE of THE GUYS,
It is heart-wrenching, isn’t it? Too often we get caught up in frivolous issues, but this one is a silent scream for warranted attention.

By: ONE of THE GUYS

ONE of THE GUYS — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:10:54 +0000

I’ve heard of these types of killings. It’s so, so sad.

The majority of abuse and violence does happen between people who know each other.

That’s a fact that most people don’t realize. I don’t have the answers, but certainly more awareness is a good first step.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:12:53 +0000

Tiff,
Your information about the Allegheny County Prothonotary’s Office is quite correct. It is appalling that this information is public and so readily available, especially to perpetrators. And people wonder how so many women end up dead when they have a PFA.