{"id":19823,"date":"2018-01-16T16:10:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T16:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/?p=19823"},"modified":"2018-01-16T16:10:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T16:10:47","slug":"we-are-brought-up-to-think-suffering-this-violence-is-ok-domestic-abuse-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/2018\/01\/16\/we-are-brought-up-to-think-suffering-this-violence-is-ok-domestic-abuse-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"We are brought up to think suffering this violence is OK\u2019: domestic abuse in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardia. Nigeria<\/p>\n<p>Marriage in Nigeria is regarded as a prized attainment, and there is a powerful social stigma around reporting violence, or, worse still, leaving your husband. The data \u2013 patchy though it is \u2013 suggests that domestic violence is a serious problem, with one national\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" draggable=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/nigeria\/ng_publications_Nigeria_DHS_2008_Final_Report.pdf\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">demographic and health survey<\/a>finding that close to a third of all of Nigerian women have experienced physical violence, which encompasses battery, marital rape and murder, at the hands of their intimate partners. But the same survey found that 43% of women believe a husband is justified in beating his wife for a number of reasons, including going out without telling him, or neglecting the children.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/working-in-development\/2018\/jan\/05\/violence-domestic-abuse-nigeria-bullying-husbands\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardia. Nigeria Marriage in Nigeria is regarded as a prized attainment, and there is a powerful social stigma around reporting violence, or, worse still, leaving your husband. The data \u2013 patchy though it is \u2013 suggests that domestic violence is a serious problem, with one national\u00a0demographic and health surveyfinding that close to a third &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[82,167,909,1029,1426,1652,2334,2514,3730],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19825,"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19823\/revisions\/19825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}