Abstract
Family, apart from providing security and emotional support should provide the most secure environment for an individual to grow. However, domestic violence is largely evident in the Nigeria families and societies. Although, women are worshipped as deities at home in some cultures in Nigeria, they are also treated as second class members of the family. This is largely due to the patriarchal nature of the Nigerian society. The essence of this work is to investigate domestic violence against woman in Nigeria. This work discovers that the lack of physical power leads to general timidity in women. This work discovers that domestic violence is perpetrated by family members against women in the family, ranging from single assault to aggravated physical battery, threats, intimation, coercion, stalking, humiliating verbal use, forcible or unlawful entry, sexual violence, marital rape, dowry and even female genital mutilation. This work is of the opinion that domestic violence bluntly trips women of their most basic human rights, the right to safety in their homes and community and should be discourage.Family, apart from providing security and emotional support should provide the most secure environment for an individual to grow. However, domestic violence is largely evident in the Nigeria families and societies. Although, women are worshipped as deities at home in some cultures in Nigeria, they are also treated as second class members of the family. This is largely due to the patriarchal nature of the Nigerian society. The essence of this work is to investigate domestic violence against woman in Nigeria. This work discovers that the lack of physical power leads to general timidity in women. This work discovers that domestic violence is perpetrated by family members against women in the family, ranging from single assault to aggravated physical battery, threats, intimation, coercion, stalking, humiliating verbal use, forcible or unlawful entry, sexual violence, marital rape, dowry and even female genital mutilation. This work is of the opinion that domestic violence bluntly trips women of their most basic human rights, the right to safety in their homes and community and should be discourage. Keywords:Domestic violence, Women, Patriarchy, Nigeria.
Highlights
Domestic violence is a widespread problem throughout the developed and developing world and makes serious impact on quality of human life and broader development (Melville & McDowell 2018)
Women in many Nigerian society have been the victims of humiliation, torture and exploitation from the time immemorial irrespective of the fact that they are worshipped by different tribal groups (Umukoro & Egbai 2016: Anweting & Ogar 2018)
United Nation‟s framework for nodal legislation on domestic violence states that all acts of gender-based-violence physical, psychological and abuse by a family members against women in the family, ranging from single assault to aggravated physical battery, kidnapping, threats, intimation, coercion, stalking, humiliating verbal use, forcible or unlawful entry, arson, destruction of property, sexual violence, marital rape, dowry or related violence, female genital mutilation violence related to exploitation through prostitution, violence against household workers and attempts to commit such acts shall be termed domestic violence (Furlow 2018; Yta et al, 2020)
Summary
Domestic violence is a widespread problem throughout the developed and developing world and makes serious impact on quality of human life and broader development (Melville & McDowell 2018). In the Nigerian society, the problem of violence against women in the family is not new.
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