Domestic Violence Incidence Impacting Socio-Economic Development of Rural Areas in Rwanda

Abstract

Domestic violence can be take shape of physical, verbal, emotional, economic and sexual abuse, which can range from complex and coercive forms to marital rape, violent physical abuse that can results into deformity or death. Studies have shown that about eighty five per cent of the offenses subsumed under the category of domestic violence, is violence between intimate partners, present or past husbands or boyfriends in which the victim is typically a woman and the offender typically a man, the rest of the parties include parents, siblings, in-laws, or roommates as Erez and Kessler (1997), observed.