Domestic abuse: The case of married women Part 2

Last week’s article helped us to appreciate that it is not easy to tell whether a man would ever metamorphose into an abuser. In view of the fact that some men could be deceptive, what can women do to protect themselves? Is there anything they can do short of glancing into a crystal ball in a desperate effort to determine their future? The answer is, not always.

Due diligence is almost second nature to most women. They always do a very good background check on potential suitors. By the time a woman accepts a proposal she would know where the man works, where he comes from, whether his family is respectable or not, his religion, his level of education, where he lives and his capacity to look after a family. So, in most cases, if you were to rewind and playback incidents leading to marriage, you would struggle to find the scrawniest grain of negligence on the part of the wife.