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‘A couple checking each other’s messages is domestic violence’

According to delegate Le Minh Nam, husband and wife checking each other’s messages, complimenting their neighbors for being nice, and not talking at home… is also domestic violence.

Discussing at the group at the National Assembly on the afternoon of May 31 on the revised draft Law on Domestic Violence Prevention and Control, delegate Le Minh Nam proposed to the drafting committee to supplement violent acts that affect mental health. family members, thereby controlling and regulating these behaviors.

According to him, mental violence has a great impact, insidious, dangerous, even damaging for a lifetime. Like parents love their children, but sometimes comparing them with other friends also makes them feel inhibited. This comes from love, wanting the child to improve, but can lead to bad things.

A delegate from Hau Giang province also said that this law is very related to human rights, so the drafting committee needs to review it in order to comply with the Constitution, ensure its feasibility and synchronize with the Law on Children, the Law on Marriage and the Law on Marriage and Family. family, Civil Code…





Delegate Le Minh Nam.  Photo: National Assembly Media

Delegate Le Minh Nam. Image: National Assembly Media

Delegate Phan Thi My Dung cited a series of acts of mental violence that are difficult to perceive, causing psychological and spiritual crises, for example, her husband came home from work but remained silent, or all day praised his beautiful neighbors. , thoughtful; “angry fish slashing chopping board”, sulking for no reason…

“These acts are common, while Vietnamese culture does not want to expose their backs. Therefore, the law needs to have effective solutions for sharing, counseling and psychological relief for victims of violence. force,” said Ms. Dung.

Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung also said that identifying forms of physical violence and economic violence is quite easy, but mental violence is not easy. When reporting the bill to the Social Commission for verification, a member of the Committee also mentioned the current situation that many husbands are under pressure from their wives, demanding to make a lot of money. promoted… “Is that a form of violence?”, he asked.

Meanwhile, delegate Le Xuan Than (Chairman of the Khanh Hoa Bar Association) suggested clearly defining what is domestic violence? Violence in other Western countries in Vietnam should be specifically limited. “This law is not only for women, because in the integration period many men are also suppressed, so the law must be a common law,” he commented.





Delegate Pham Khanh Phong Lan (Head of Ho Chi Minh City Food Safety Management Board).  Photo: HK

Delegate Pham Khanh Phong Lan (Head of Ho Chi Minh City Food Safety Management Board). Image: HK

Talking about prevention solutions, Representative Pham Khanh Phong Lan (Head of Ho Chi Minh City Food Safety Management Board) said that it is necessary to manage images promoting domestic violence in movies, photos and books. Many movies now have husband slapping his wife, hitting jealousy, throwing acid… “These movies are normalizing domestic violence. Children and teenagers who watch them are very susceptible to infection,” said Ms. Lan.

Mr. Tran Cong Phan (former Deputy Director of the Supreme People’s Procuracy) said that the State’s intervention must be regulated in the direction of making the family better, not broken. If domestic violence occurs, it is forbidden to contact, without the opinion of the victim of violence, to be administratively handled or imprisoned… “.

“Administrative handling affects the pocket, but who goes to prison to work to support the family?”, he said, suggesting that the Drafting Committee should consider the traditional elements of Vietnamese families. Administrative sanctions or imprisonment “are only suitable for foreign countries, while Vietnam must handle them step by step, from conciliation to healing, to higher handling”.

According to the revised Domestic Violence Prevention Bill, acts that are considered domestic violence include torture, ill-treatment, beating or intentional harm to health and life; insult or intentionally offend the honor and dignity; isolating, driving away or applying constant psychological pressure, causing physical or mental harm; neglect or fail to take care of the elderly, pregnant or nursing women, disabled or sick people.

There is also behavior that does not educate children; gender discrimination of family members when dividing inheritance; disparaging body shape, gender; prevent family members from participating in social activities; distribute private information and images without consent; forced sex; compulsive listening to audio, viewing images, reading content, performing pornographic performances, inciting violence…

In mid-April, at the National Assembly Standing meeting, National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue suggested that forced fetal sex selection infringes on women’s health and mental health, should be regulated as an act of domestic violence. . Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son suggested that parents not fulfill their responsibility to teach their children or use excessive methods in teaching their children are acts of domestic violence. In the draft submitted to the National Assembly at the 3rd session, these two acts were added.

The draft Law on Domestic Violence Prevention and Control (amended) was submitted to the National Assembly for the first time; discussion in the hall on June 14.

Hoang Thuy – Viet Tuan

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