CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background to the Study
The incidence of interpersonal violence continues to occur in our society. Generally, it tends to have some cognitive, emotional and behavioural impacts on the victims. An aspect of interpersonal violence is domestic violence. Domestic violence refers to any attitude or behaviour that results in harm, injury or damage to the victim within the domestic setting. It ultimately causes the victim to live in fear of the perpetrator. Domestic violence is often unpredictable and uncontrollable. It overwhelms a person’s sense of safety and security. Children are gifts of nature, a blessing to marriage, and asset to every nation. Most marriages land on rocks because of absence of children. Some couples spend millions of cedis “searching” for children but when they are blessed with these same children, they end up traumatizing and putting them into streets through conflicts. Conflict is inevitable in any society but how one perceives it makes the difference. It is said that if you put two human beings together on a desert island, they will find something to disagree about. Elliot (1999) asserts that conflict is an inevitable part of human life, so it is something we must see as an opportunity to learn, grow, negotiate and to find creative solutions to. To him, resorting to anger and violence to resolve our conflicts 2 distracts a man from that opportunity of progress. Violence does not solve a problem. It creates more problems. Any satisfaction we get from “getting even” is soon eclipsed by share of retaliation from the one we have injured.
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MUSAH, NIMATU "DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND ITS PERCEIVED EFFECTS ON THE CHILD’S PERFORMANCE IN SCHOOL IN THE BIMBILLA COMMUNITY, GHANA: IMPLICATIONS FOR GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING" Afribary. Afribary, 23 Mar. 2021, https://afribary.com/works/domestic-violence-and-its-perceived-effects-on-the-child-s-performance-in-school-in-the-bimbilla-community-ghana-implications-for-guidance-and-counselling. Accessed 28 Apr. 2024.
MUSAH, NIMATU . "DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND ITS PERCEIVED EFFECTS ON THE CHILD’S PERFORMANCE IN SCHOOL IN THE BIMBILLA COMMUNITY, GHANA: IMPLICATIONS FOR GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING". Afribary, Afribary, 23 Mar. 2021. Web. 28 Apr. 2024. < https://afribary.com/works/domestic-violence-and-its-perceived-effects-on-the-child-s-performance-in-school-in-the-bimbilla-community-ghana-implications-for-guidance-and-counselling >.
MUSAH, NIMATU . "DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND ITS PERCEIVED EFFECTS ON THE CHILD’S PERFORMANCE IN SCHOOL IN THE BIMBILLA COMMUNITY, GHANA: IMPLICATIONS FOR GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING" Afribary (2021). Accessed April 28, 2024. https://afribary.com/works/domestic-violence-and-its-perceived-effects-on-the-child-s-performance-in-school-in-the-bimbilla-community-ghana-implications-for-guidance-and-counselling