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Inter-Generational Violence in Asian Families |
05 Jun 2009 |
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 How can we prevent the violence that some older Asian women use to control the younger female members of their family?
Last week, Naseebah Bibi was given a seven-year jail sentence for falsely imprisoning her three daughters-in-law. The court heard that she had treated the women like "slaves and dogs" and that she had subjected them to constant beatings and abuse for over 13 years. Bibi’s crimes were only discovered - and dealt with - when the children of one of the abused women told his nursery teacher that his grandmother had inflicted injuries on his mother’s hands. Jenni talks to Jasvinder Sanghera and Anjum Anwar who both work with women in Asian communities and discusses an issue that is rarely mentioned; the violence that some older Asian women use to control the younger female members of their family.An-Nisa SocietyDisclaimer
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