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Domestic Violence.

I have come across lots of articles where authors are trying to justify their take on who to blame on domestic violence; the man or the woman. This to me is a wrong approach to this problem engulfing most marriages in Nigeria. If we actually want to end this issue and not ascribe blames on partners, then a critical dissection and analysis should be done on the act itself. I believe in doing this, we may begin to comprehend the phrase, "actions beget reactions" . A peep into wikipedia's view of domestic violence, I found this: "Domestic violence can take a number of forms, including physical, verbal, emotional, economic, religious, and sexual abuse, which can range from subtle, coercive forms to marital rape and to violent physical abuse such as female genital mutilation and acid throwing that results in disfigurement or death" . A cross-sectional view of the statement, we can observe that domestic violence does not just end in physical and