Image: Domestic violence. Stock Photo. Pixabay.com Domestic violence makes life for many women in the former Soviet Union a nightmare. Preventing the problem from being resolved are a patriarchic attitude that looks down on women, most authorities’ contention that domestic violence is a private matter between a man and woman, few shelters where women can escape battering, and lack of domestic-violence laws in most countries. Thus domestic abuse is pervasive in countries with cultures and traditions as diverse as Russia, Armenia and Uzbekistan. It is hard to find accurate statistics about domestic violence in the former Soviet Union, but the …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
