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Although pregnancy can be a protective period for some women, either in terms of a hiatus of pre-existing violence, for others it is a risk period during which abuse may begin or escalate. Women with violent partners have a hard time protecting themselves from unintended pregnancy and sexual violence can directly lead to pregnancy. [18]
Reproductive coercion (also called coerced reproduction, reproductive control or reproductive abuse) is a collection of behaviors that interfere with decision-making related to reproductive health. [1]
Some of the forms of violence perpetrated by individuals are: rape, domestic violence, sexual harassment, acid throwing, reproductive coercion, female infanticide, prenatal sex selection, obstetric violence, online gender-based violence and mob violence; as well as harmful customary or traditional practices such as honor killings, dowry ...
Violence against men; Violence against LGBT people. Violence against transgender people, including non-binary people; Gay bashing, which may be related to gender expression; School-related gender-based violence; Online gender-based violence, violence against any of the above groups (although disproportionately women) that takes place online ...
Pregnancy-associated femicide is a developing field of study. [3] Researchers and activists are calling for the implementation of intervention methods in healthcare and policy, as well as standardized documentation of incidence rate, in order to address the sociopolitical factors contributing to the issue.
The gender roles prescribed in the Three Obediences and Four Virtues became a cornerstone of the family, and thus, societal stability. Starting from the Han period, Confucians began to teach that a virtuous woman was supposed to follow the males in her family: the father before her marriage, the husband after she marries, and her sons in widowhood.
Domestic violence can be described as all of the following: Violence – use of physical force to apply a state to others contrary to their wishes [1] [2] [3] and may include some combination of verbal, emotional, economic, physical and sexual abuse.
The Gender-Based Violence Against Women in Contemporary France determined the number of deaths relating to domestic violence from 2010 to 2014. 653 deaths in this time period were female victims at the hand of their male partner and 125 deaths were male victims by their female partners. These findings were determined after a research into ...