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Chronic depression Anxiety Chronic pain Death Dehydration Dissociative states Drug and alcohol dependence Eating disorders Emotional "over-reactions" to

stimuli General emotional numbing Health problems Malnutrition

Panic attacks

Repeated self-injury

Self neglect

Sexual dysfunction

Sleep disorders

Strained family relationships

Suicide attempts

Inability to adequately respond to the needs of their children

Miscarriages.6

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STUDY BY MEDICAL STUDENTS

AKU (CLASS OF 1996)

In a sample of 176 males :-

• 27% practiced physical abuse.

• 76% recognized it as mistreatment.

• 46% felt men have a right to hit women.

• 68% practiced isolation.

• 44% did not see it as abuse.

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In 1983, domestic violencewas recognized as aspecific criminal offenceby the introduction ofsection 498-A into theIndian Penal Code. Thissection deals with crueltyby a husband or his familytowards a marriedwoman.

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