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Like Father, Like Son - Domestic Violence

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Abstract This essay presents a feminist analysis of honor killing. One of the main goals is to resolve honor killings preconceptions from a particular religious belief system and locate it on a continuum of patriarchal patterns of violence against women. First, provide a summary of the defining characteristics of honor killing and discuss the circumstances which they are likely to happen. Second, use statistics and survey to prove the influence of family to their children. Third, apply kill all family members solution into honor killing situation. The essay ends with an opposing viewpoint to estimate how people might think about the new solution. Violence Against Women Like Father, Like Son In this world, mothers give birth and both parents raise their children and try to give the best they can to make their children feel safe and happy. Children learn and follow their parents since birth. From each word to each step, parents and family are a. big role in every child’s life. It is always true that killing any human being is unacceptable especially when the victim is one of your own family members. For honor killing to be effective, killing all family members who have kinship to the victim is necessary, rather than just killing the victim. Honor Killing Honor killings are an extreme form of gendered domestic violence. It mostly involves young, female victims and an assailant who is a male relative. In many traditional male dominated societies, a woman's chastity is very important, and the loss of virginity before marriage is a great affront to the honor of a woman's family. This is even true in cases of rape and refusal to enter the family arranged marriage. Although the woman is a victim of a violent crime, the fact of the matter is that she is no longer a virgin and has brought shame to her family. The parents also have a belief that they have a right to kill their child as they have given birth to them. These women are killed to preserve the family's honor. Preconceptions Many people might think honor killings are just happening in Islamic Countries, but it could happen anywhere in the world. The Roman statesman Marcus Cato once said, “If you catch your wife in adultery, you can kill her with impunity; she, however, cannot dare to lay a finger on you if you commit adultery, for it is the law” (Goldstein, 2002, p.

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