Women Abuse

She sits in the dark afraid for her life; she thinks this could be the day she dies. She sits awaiting her husband to come home, she knows he was drinking and she knows how bad he gets when he drinks. She prays to God to help her through this, she prays that maybe he’ll come home and realize what he has been doing to her, that he’ll come home and say he was sorry and he loves her. Every night and every day her husband continually slaps and pushes her around, she can’t take it anymore, always being terrified for her life. She can’t leave him; he says “if you leave I’ll kill you.” It scares her enough not to go; she can’t tell anymore she’s afraid of what people might think she’s embarrassed.

Wife abuse occurs everyday to women all around the world, and more than half the time the punishment men get for abusing their wives is less then what they deserve. In Canada alone; one-half of women have experienced at least one incident of violence since the age of 16, more than one-in-ten women have reported violence in a current marriage and at some point felt that their lives were in danger, also one-in-six currently married women have reported violence by their spouses.

There are several different types of wife abuse; sexual, emotional, psychological, financial, physical, and verbal. In 1983 Canada finally made a law regarding sexual abuse, saying that a partner could not sexually assault his wife or significant other. These laws about wife abuse aren’t a strong enough punishment, and because of this men just keeping abusing their wives any way they see fit.

An anonymous writer told the story of her life; she was involved with 3 different abusive relationships. Two of her relationships the men were convicted of spousal abuse, the one man she was with held a gun to hers and her children’s head for over 7 hours telling them if they moved he had three bullets in the gun, two for her children and one for her he said he wouldn’t think twice about shooting her. He finally fell asleep, she ran out of the house calling the police, he was sentenced to one and a half years in jail. That wasn’t the first time he had abused her, they were in a relationship for 4 years and everyday he would abuse her what ever way he pleased. The other man she was with for six and a half years who also abused her everyday, finally she broke free of this relationship