SUTRA ™ believes that the Indian community in South Africa has too long failed to recognize the reality of gender violence. We believe that this is a problem that we need as a community with the highest priority is to address. South Africa, women and children must be protected from all forms of losses, and we must work together to ensure that this is a certainty. SUTRA ™ Magazine consults with Lifeline Southern Africa gender-based violence. How could a woman know if she was violence in a relationship? When people talk about “domestic violence”, they usually see it as violence in the family. But more than this. The definition of “national relationship” includes relationships where two people from a separated or divorced, and including same-sex relationships. Most people also believe that domestic violence is physical violence. However, there are also other forms of abuse. Physical includes things like hitting, kicking, hitting, stabbing, burning. There is emotional abuse, things like their cursing, threatening to isolate them from family and friends. Sexual abuse including rape, adultery, fornication, what they wear clothes or do sexual acts that make him uncomfortable. When is too late to get out of abusive relationship? It’s never too late to get out of abusive relationships. Once you begin to feel uncomfortable in a relationship or feel that your partner has changed the treatment from you (in a negative way, eg He became very possessive), it is time to critically look at your relationship with the capture, and try to find out what is different. This can help the time or decide to terminate such relationship. Is it a wifes duty to give him the rights of husbands and wives of his? At the Stop Gender Violence Helpline, the adviser to get a lot of comment. We use this as an opportunity to educate callers about their rights. No one has the right to torture others. However, an abusive partner will often use this statement as an apology for his behavior. In fact it is sexual harassment if he forced his partner to have sex with him if they do not like or do not agree. Is ‘marital rape’ is there? Yes, this is a legal concept and as a crime in South Africa was able to form a marriage on a charge of rape in front of him, if he forced them into sex have been realized without their consent. No one can force her to have sex with her against her will. What should I do if I was in an abusive relationship and the children? Knowing a woman beaten with children need what effect or even a witness abuse between parents know about the possible abuse of children. These parents are an example for their children, and teach these children how to relate to other people. If a boy saw his father abuse his mother, he will learn that this is the way a woman should be treated. This then creates a spiral of violence that would recover from one generation to another. The only way to ensure that it does not happen to break this vicious cycle. Thus, parents who say that they stand before the eyes of their children will never fight and traumatizing their children? Yes, the kids are smart. You can not see the abuse because they are in another room, but they could hear what was going on, you will see the physical evidence (such as) mother’s bruised face and he can set the tension and anger in the sense of air. Some of the signs that a child can be traumatized: play behavior that he had seen his parents show, bed-wetting and nightmares, cried the mother, fear and anxiety, social isolation. For more information and support contact Lifeline 0800-150-150 South Africa.