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No Longer Silent in Singapore

Females in Singapore who are victims of domestic violence received a bit more in the way of legal protection in 1997, when laws and amendments were made to the Women’s Charter.  The intent of the amendments was offer more protection, with less delay in action for that protection.  In many societies around the world, including the free-thinking western countries of Europe and North America, this is an unspoken of and often hidden tragedy that occurs in many households each and every day.  Singapore is part of the silent Asian community.  No one talks about what might be going horrendously wrong, and therefore it has taken so much time to protect those in dire need of protection.  If it takes a strong-willed American woman up to ten attempts to leave an abusive relationship, consider what it takes a Singaporean woman to finally get out and save herself.  Society in Singapore has matured however, and has come to acknowledge that the existence of bad things is a reality and one that needs to be rectified.  The agencies concerned with protecting women in Singapore have done their most and their best to make help attainable and easy to understand, thus providing the encouragement victims so often are in need of to get out of current and un-livable situations.  Through seminars and lectures held in convention centers and Singapore luxury hotels, education is helping to solve the problem.  Many women in Singapore are becoming more educated, in all fields, and thus more financially stable.  This serves a few purposes, one in which a woman is able to financially make it on her own.  Another is that with increased education comes decreased ignorance and apathy.  It is no longer a stigma have been abused, and much more a stigma to have been the abuser.

While violence in homes around the world is still greatly under-reported, and that which is emotional or verbal very hard to prove, the changes in the laws regarding domestic violence in Singapore are all steps in the right direction.  Leaps and bounds in the right direction.  For many around the world the events involve intimate partners.  This creates such complete and utter devastation, that many shelters have been created that offer not only shelter, but counseling as well.  The Care Corner in Singapore is one such place that women can go to for help, as well as victims of child abuse and elderly abuse.  The public is starting to listen on the island, and what they are hearing is prompting them to say that it is just not okay to be silent any longer.

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