Various Examples of Domestic or Intimate Partner Violence

Domestic violence is a form of gender oppression that is characterized by bodily injuries, abusive language, verbal threats, emotional abuse, and harassment as ways of coercing, controlling, or punishing the persons or a victim, who he or she has an intimate relationship with. It is also called intimate partners violence (IPV) because the aggressor and the victim are related by intimate connection. Domestic violence occurs across socioeconomic, religious, and cultural settings. Women form the majority of the victims of this form of violence e due to their inherent sociocultural and political position in the community.
There are various examples of domestic or intimate partner violence. One such example includes what is defined as dowry murder. Dowry murder involves the killing of wives due to the inability to pay dowry to the bride's family. The bride or the husband would kill his wife because of failure to get dowry from her so that he could marry another wife who can pay dowry. Here women are perceived as material for economic use, which constitutes oppression in the form of intimate partner violence. This inhumane phenomenon is commonly observed in southeast Asian countries such as India.
Honor Killing is another form of domestic violence that involves the murder of girls or women for falling in love or getting engaged to a man whom the family did not approve of and is considered to bring d...