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Will Armenia Pass a Draft Law on Domestic Violence?
A draft law on domestic violence that was to specifically deal with violence within the home was turned away by the Armenian government on Jan. 21. Instead of approving the bill, the government recommended that other existing laws be amended to include clauses that would help the courts deal with cases of domestic violence. Whether the government has outright rejected the bill is unclear.
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In other words the Armenian government doesn’t want to do anything about it.
I bet if there was money involved the government would make changes immediately. come to your senses, it’s 2013 .
Okay how much bribe money does this legislation require?
Appalling. Even as a kid, I knew it was a sexist culture. No wonder I married an odart.
{In 2010, in the United States there were 1,800 females murdered by men in single victim/single offender incidents.}(Wendy Pollack, HuffPost 11/09/2012)
There was one domestic violence homicide in Armenia in 2010, Zaruhi Petrosyan. This sort of violence is so rare in Armenia that it made national and international news.
And, yes it is still rare, even though even one murder is one too many (“In July 2012, Anahit Babayan was beaten to death with a concrete slab and a wooden bar by her husband of 30 years.”).
RoA population: about 3 million
USA population: about 300 million.
Adjusted for population, USA had 18X the domestic violence homicide rate of RoA in 2010.
Oh, and in the feminist paradise of Sweden, population 9 million, {…An estimated 16 women a year are killed by their husband or partner, and only a fraction of the cases involving assaults, rape, a breach of a restraining orders or ongoing abuse are prosecuted.} (New York Times, Lizette Alvarez, 2005). Sweden’s 16 DV murders per annum is 5X the rate of RoA.
You married an odar, good for you.
You had issues with Armenian men: that’s fine too.
But don’t try to blame Armenian men at large for your personal preference not to marry one.
Individuals don’t marry ethnicities or nationalities or cultures; they marry individuals.
Avery,
Domestic violence itself is an issue in Armenia. Most of the violence going on may not lead to death, but it’s still an issue.
From what I have seen in Armenia domestic violence goes on in a family because wives or daughters of abuser tolerate it for years. Sometimes, even close relatives do not know that there is a domestic violence in certain families. When my mother married my father my grandmother told her that she needs to find a way to get along with my dad and his family no matter how good or bad things will be. Thanks God things turned out good otherwise she would have been expected to live her life like that .