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Mostly, men use violence against their wives. Physical
and mental violence at homes will not only have physical
harms, but also humiliate and belittle children.
Nevertheless, many cases of domestic violence remain
unknown and undiscovered, possibly because some
women see themselves deserving violence since they have
neglected to fulfill their duties, they might fear further
violence for disclosing secrets of the family, or else they
might feel humiliated because of violence and refuse to
publicize it.
Unfortunately, there are no laws to protect families
against domestic violence in some cases. Violence has
diverse personal and social dimensions. The personal
effects of violence is that it decreases efficiency of a
person in workplace, decrease the learning rate, and leads
to a failure of people in having social interactions.
The minimum effects of domestic violence are failure to
have social interaction, running away from home, suicide,
failure in participating in public meetings and discussions,
failure in expressing personal views, having negative
mentality of one’s own, social seclusion, fear and anxiety,
lack of independence, failure in the realization of one’s true
potentials and talents, and most importantly, continuation
of violence. World health organization has set its priority
goal in its campaign against domestic violence
“understanding the issue of violence against women”.
The first five priorities of the violence against women
campaign are as follows: making binding policies for the
public, creating supportive environments, revision in
government services, betterment of social action to
combat domestic violence against women, and
development of social and individual skills in people for a
non-violent co-existence.