Spouse abuse (SA) refers to a phenomenon that is commonly known as domestic violence. It is also variously referred to as family violence, domestic dispute, intimate partner violence, wife abuse, wife battering, husband battering, gender based violence and many other terminologies in various parts of the world. Spouse abuse also refers to violence between intimates living together or who have previously cohabited (Buzawa and Buzawa, 2003). It is perpetrated in the form of physical, psychological and verbal acts used to achieve domination and control over an intimate partner (Freeman, 2008).
Spouse abuse characteristically includes acts of physical and mental cruelty progressing from a slap or shove, to a punch or kick and to the more extreme manifestations of violence, in suffocation, strangulation, attempted murder and murder as well as emotional, financial, sexual and faith-based abuse. Although women are predominantly victims, husbands are also victims of spouse abuse.
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