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This subject is never a pleasant one. No one likes to acknowledge domestic abuse is a way of life…especially if it is happening within their own life. Unfortunately, domestic abuse happens every day in a multitude of ways. It doesn’t just happen in the lives of the poor, the rich, or the celebrity world; even though, that is often the stories that we hear about…those who are famous. We must awaken to the facts of domestic abuse; it is often learned behaviors that are used to control another person…either with intimidation, physical violence, emotional abuse or sexual abuse.
Domestic abuse is like cancer…it is constantly trying to destroy the people involved. It is a pattern of behavior that affect both the abuser and the person being abused. Many who are being abused do not recognize that what is happening in their lives is actually domestic abuse. The reasons for their lack of understanding, or denial are many. (more…)
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Posted in crime, culture, death, divorce, emotions, family, fathers, Honor, husband, marriage, murder, news, parenting, relationships, violence, tagged anger, Chicago, cultural, daughter, death, divorce, embarassment, failure, family, father, Georgia, honor killing, marriage, news, Pakistani, parenting, respect, unhappy, value on July 8, 2008|
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Once again the term an honor killing, has hit the news. A Pakistani father, Chaudhry Rashid living in Georgia, who had arranged a marriage for his 25 year old daughter Sandeela Kanwal, is being accused of killing her when she expressed that she no longer wished to be married to the man (who she had not seen in recent months as he lives in Chicago).
Sandeela Kanwal was unhappy with the arranged marriage and wished to divorce. Her father allegedly strangled her to death out of a cultural sense of family honor that was in jeaparody in his mind. He was so angry that he chose to end her life, rather than admit that a marriage he had helped to arrange was not working out well.
Did he put so little value in his daughter’s happiness that he put his own sense of embarassment, about the failure of the marriage, ahead of her life? Obviously she respected her father’s wishes and married the man her father had picked out for her. There must have been a compelling reason for her to wish to leave the marriage. What I want to know is…how is family honor preserved by killing one’s own daughter? How is it more honorable to murder than it is to divorce; in any culture?
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