Economics of Domestic Violence against Women: The Nigerian Evidence (Published)
Domestic violence essentially denies women’s equality before the law and reinforces their subordinate social status. The fight against domestic violence against women has existed for centuries yet persists all over the world. This study therefore investigates domestic violence against women as a form of poverty and uses the principal component analysis and the Foster Greer and Theorberke (FGT) decomposition methods to analyse this. The study further uses bar charts to show the perception of Nigerians towards domestic violence and relates it to different poverty levels. The findings suggest that the Southern regions are more involved in domestic violence than the Northern region of Nigeria. Also when examined across poverty levels, the results shows that the poorer an individual is in Nigeria, the more likely he is to think that it is justified if he beats the wife for one reason or another. The study therefore recommends more sensitization campaigns to target the poor
Keywords: Domestic Violence, Nigeria, Poverty, Women
Positive Family Dynamics: The Anti-Thesis of Domestic Violence (Published)
This paper explored the role of positive family dynamics on stress reduction, and improvement of the overall wellbeing of family members. Using the Christian and Igbo models of family roles assignment, and the Evolutionary theory as the theoretical background, the paper which conceptualized positive family dynamics as the situation in which every member is able to manage his/her role expectations, views incongruence of role expectations and role behaviours among family members as a major germinator of domestic violence, and that of the family head as catastrophic. Variables that affect family dynamics such as communication, value orientation and goals, and improper description of roles were also discussed. The paper adduced empirical evidence to strongly suggest that positive family dynamics not only relieves tension in the family, but also enable children to actualize themselves
Keywords: Domestic Violence, Family Dynamics, Value Orientation