Domestic violence (DV) fuelled by fractured marital relations and behavioural disorders among children predominantly owing to screen addiction dominate over 400 cases handled by community counsellors of Kudumbashree gender resource centres across Ernakulam for three months since April, 2022.
Alcoholism, hypertension, anxiety, depression, child sexual abuse, teenage-related problems, mental torture, disputes between neighbours, abandonment of parents by children are among the other various issues.
“The main challenge we face in handling DV cases is that the parties often approach our counsellors after exhausting almost all options and when the relation is beyond repair. When a potential reconciliation remains a non-starter even after multiple counselling sessions and divorce becomes inevitable, we help them with legal separation,” said Shine T. Money, District Programme Manager (Gender), Kudumbashree Mission.
