VOLUNTEERISM AND ETHICS
Shelters for Abused and Homeless Women
What to do? The issue of abused and homeless women is one that has recently been brought to the forefront of social issues in Pakistan. Abuse, most often begins after marriage. According to local traditions, once a girl’s baraat (wedding procession) enters the husband’s house, only her janaza (funeral pyre) should leave. Loyalty and devotion to the husband and his family come above every thing else. When family support is pulled away, the girl is then at the mercy of her husband. This total control of the girl’s life sometimes leads to her death. Often times it leads to abuse. The girl cannot return to her father’s house for fear of dishonoring him and so continues to suffer. In some cases she may chose to run away therefore igniting her husband’s anger that then is left with no choice put to pursue and kill her to redeem his honor.
There are very few shelters, which will take in runaway women. These shelters besides being few in number are also run on a small scale often equipped to handle visitors for short periods of time. No real constructive assistance is given to the battered women.
With USD 1 million, I would open a large hostel for women in need of protection. Inside the compound there will be a polytechnic/ educational institute to provide them an education, guidance and counseling for their emotional health, law firm to handle legal matters and a nursery primary school for their children.
Putting the $$$$ to use: Opening a shelter in a major city is like putting a bandage on a large wound. Most women housed in shelters are semi-literate if at all and with little or no skills. In order to make them into productive citizens a polytechnic/ women’s school/college should be opened inside the compound for security reasons and to avoid transport issues. This building should also contain guidance and counseling service to look after their emotional health.
A nursery and primary school should be available for women who were accompanied by young children.
A law firm, which does not have to be located inside the compound, be available to take care of their legal matters.
Why would I do it and how do I justify it? Living in a man’s world is difficult enough for women in Europe and America. Women in Pakistan face even more discrimination.
Parameswari, B. (2015). Domestic Violence and Child Abuse. IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science, 20(2), 56-59. Retrieved from http://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jhss/papers/Vol20-issue2/Version-3/I020235659.pdf
A notable amount of thee victims come from working class and lower economic background and money and the lack there of was a major preceding factor in many cases. Domestic violence is not exclusive to the working class or low income and transcends economic status it I worth note that domestic violence disproportionately affects people of lower economic status. Lacking financial resources is a leading reason why women stay in abusive relationships. A number of cases in the document had heavy relation to finances and abusers controlling the finances in the relationship, even when the perpetrators of abuse were not the
Women will continue to suffer from domestic violence unless there is some sort of intervention to help them. When dealing with this population, it is essential to create a safe environment where the woman can talk freely about the abuse without any retaliation from the abuser. When someone comes into a therapeutic session, everyone deserves to be treated with respect and care. This in turn will create a sense of hope that a different type of life can be possible. Also, knowing that there is a support system can help the woman begin the process of change. Despite this, the process of leaving the abusive partner is slow (Warshaw, n.d.)
...ty for increasing the likelihood that women will become homeless. Female single parent families rose form 23.7 % of all families in poverty in 1960 to 52.6 % of all families in poverty in the mid 1990's. (Hagen, 1994). As a result of historical growth in women's poverty and female headed family homelessness, it has been increasingly important for research to focus on the unique sets of issues and problems that women's homelessness presents.
Domestic violence covers a large array of abuses. Some of the different types of abuse include Physical, Emotional, Verbal, Sexual and Economical. Women suffering abuse usually suffer from all the different types. Often one type of abuse will bleed or lead to another and most abuse cases never start out with something physical. Most of the time one form of abuse is being used to enforce another.
Homeless Shelters are described as “temporary residences” to protect vulnerable populations. Homeless shelters basically supply a bed for the night and are also a first come...
Surprisingly, the shelter become the most comfortable place I ever had. I met women in similar situations like me. I saw the glow in their face and the hope in their eyes to move forward in their life. I found courage in me after long time to see the world differently. Counseling and women support groups helped me to focus on my future and helped me to see outside the box. Even though, I did not have much communication with other women in the shelter, I empathized their struggles in life. I saw women coming and leaving the shelter when their goals are met, when they’re physically and mentally cured, when they gain all the strength they needed and most of all, when their past become the past. My entire notion about women shelter changed immensely. I became grateful for people like Adrianna for doing an incredible job of helping women in
Domestic violence affects numerous women across different aspects of their lives. The main cause of injury to women is domestic violence (“Domestic Violence Statistics,” n.d.). Factors that contribute to the occurrence and continuation of this form of violence towards women include isolation, economic aspects and access to resources. Abusive men socially isolate their partners from friends and family. The women have restrictions in contact with other people. This manages to keep the battering hidden and makes it harder for the victim to find help and leave. Perpetrators of domestic violence may also isolate their partner from employment. It is a control tactic and enables the abuser to have complete control over the finances of the household and her ability to access the money. This also socially isolates the women because she no longer has co-workers to be around and is forced to stay inside the home all day by herself. She is now totally economically dependent on her abuser, which decreases her opportunity to leave the relationship and to have stability once she leaves. ...
Violent and abusive relationships are often problematic for many women to escape, and it is sad to see that these women must undergo additional setbacks including race and class struggles. The specific issues that contribute to the difficulty of leaving an abusive partner include economic and financial instability, child custody issues, language barriers, and lack of ethnically sensitive services. Girlfriends and wives who are dependent upon their abusive partner’s income have a harder time escaping the abuse, because they do not have money to support themselves independently. If the woman has a child with her partner, this poses an even more difficult situation because she would have to consider the child’s needs. In result, if the woman has no one else to turn to, she must stay and suffer the abusive environment. Wen Lin and Imm Tan’s essay “Holding Up More Than Half the Heavens,” addresses the lack of multicultural and multilingual services for battered Asian Pacific American women. “In the entire United States, only two shelters exist for Asian Pacific American women” (Wen Lin and Imm Tan, 464). Their essay brings to light the issue of who is taken into women’s shelters and who is turned away. Women of different cultures who cannot speak English are the individuals being deprived of shelter services often “because of language and cultural difficulties or sheer racism” (Wen Lin and Imm Tan, 464). “The language barrier, in effect, shuts out most refugee and immigrant women” (Wen Lin and Imm Tan, 464). Shelters are these women’s last hope, and once they are refused help, they must return to violence in their homes once again. As...
The lack of resources and affordable housing has always been the main issue for the revolving doors in the shelter system. Homelessness in New York City is predominantly higher than outer states. According to the Department of Homeless Services, New York City homeless rate is higher than other states due to the lack of affordable housing by 53%. The lack of affordable housing has caused many families evictions. Many families are working minimum wage jobs and the fear of losing empl...
To define, domestic crime is known as an abusive behavior between parents and family members (NHS 2015). Since it occurs at home, women and children are usually the victims of the crime. It has been proven that around 1.4 million women and 700,000 children have been abused domestically in 2014 (Travis 2015). This has affected both communities and families due to lack of jobs and poverty (Jefferson 2007), as a person can probably grow into a great deal of pressure. Moreover, due to alcoholic adductors, abusers can easily reach to a point of losing temper and mind; this will result in abusing without recognizing. As a result, Children might experience a low future qualification in education due to the house atmosphere (McCue 2008). Additionally, the mother might not be able to offer the family with income by herself; therefore, this makes her forced to stay in order to have shelter and food, which this will result into a wide chance of being abused at home (ibid). One possible solution for this situation is to keep women and children safe and away from this kind of environment, the specialist family violence services can offer them shelter and money for a purpose of living and be able to become highly educated having a better future qualification (McCormak 2015). Moreover, the government should work with courts on producing restricted laws and behaviors to men, this could happen by
Without women’s shelters, millions of abused women would not have a “way out” of the danger they face each and every day. Based on the statistics, survival stories that are typical of victims helped at a shelter, and the beneficial resources provided at shelters, it is obvious that women’s shelters are very effective and necessary. It is crucial that these shelters receive adequate funding in order to give victims of domestic violence a hope for a better future.
Most of the Early Childhood Care program is mainly aim for the both working families. The main idea is supporting equality of ideology by women to participate in work force. In History women like to have the same right to get the chance to work as the man. Providing the Early Childhood Care service is allowing women for to get the workforce, also for women who enter the war in Second World ...
Kapadia, M., Saleem, S., & Karim, M. S. (2010). The hidden figure: sexual intimate partner violence among Pakistani women. European Journal Of Public Health, 20(2), 164-168. doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckp110
She felt that going to a nursery school should be a natural part of a child’s early life: ‘Experience has shown that it can be looked upon as a normal institution in the social life of any civilised community’ (Isaacs, 1952, p.31).