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Examination Of The Effects Of Gender Based Violence On Women
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1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
This
study is crucial and timely especially as statistics showing the rate
of domestic violence globally has been on a steady increase. Among other
things,
1. This study was meant to be an eye opener to the fact that
domestic violence is prevalent in Nigeria and it’s something that
needed to be dealt with owing to its many negative impacts on victims of
such violent.
2. upon providing evidence of its existence, the study
was also meant to suggest solutions to the phenomena called domestic
violence
3. This study was also expected to add value to the existing
body of knowledge for students, academicians and researchers who may
appreciate the problem of domestic abuse in Nigerian society sand
equally enhance the understanding of its consequences to the society
4.
Finally, it was hoped that the study would enable policy makers
appreciate the problem and come up with appropriate remedies to address
the problems associated with domestic violence.
1.6 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
Egor
Local Government Area of Benin City, the capital of Edo state, Nigeria
was used for the study mainly because of its heterogeneity in religious
affiliation of female resident in the area.
1.7 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
As
a developing country, Nigeria does not have a sophisticated database of
empirical studies on domestic violent. More so, due to the fact that
Nigeria do not
yet consider the issue of domestic violence a great
crime as well as the differences in the definition of domestic violence,
the major challenge to this study was finding research work that would
help the researcher understand the problem broadly.
For this reason,
the study utilized any resource that relates to the research problem
such as scholarly works, newspaper articles and journals.
However,
the study was restricted to Egor Local Government area of Benin City,
therefore findings may not apply to the entire entity called Nigeria and
the world in general.
Finally, the sample in this research study was
disproportionately located in Egor Local Government, Benin City, and so
the result may not be a solid representation of the whole state.
1.7 DEFINITON OF TERMS.
Domestic
violent: Domestic violent is a confrontation between family or
household members that typically involves physical harm, sexual assault,
or fear of physical harm.
Wife battering: Wife beating refers to any
abusive, violent, coercive, forceful, or threatening act or word
inflicted by a member of the family or
household on a woman in the society usually to establish power through fear and intimidation.
Cohabitation: Cohabitation is the state or condition of living together as husband and wife without been married
Socialization:
From the perspective of society, socialization refers to the process of
fitting new individuals into an organized way of life and an
established cultural tradition.
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