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Article: Addressing domestic violence against women: An unfinished agenda.(CME)
- Article from:
- Indian Journal of Community Medicine
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
- Author:
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Byline: Ravneet. Kaur, Suneela. Garg
"Domestic violence is a burden on numerous sectors of the social system and quietly, yet dramatically, affects the development of a nation 1/4 batterers cost nations fortunes in terms of law enforcement, health care, lost labor and general progress in development. These costs do not only affect the present generation; what begins as an assault by one person on another, reverberates through the family and the community into the future". (Zimmerman)[sup] [1] Domestic violence is a global issue reaching across national boundaries as well as socio-economic, cultural, racial and class distinctions. This problem is not only widely ...