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Child Abuse in Namibia

The causes of child abuse in Namibia are the following: Child Abuse

• Poverty
• Loss of Parents
• Unemployment

There are four major categories of child abuse:Domestic Child Abuse

1. neglect,
2. physical abuse,
3. psychological or emotional abuse, and
4. sexual abuse

The law is being used to address serious incidents of domestic violence

When the Combating of Domestic Violence Bill was being debated, some were worried that people might abuse the law by going to court for trivial little tiffs, especially since the law covers non-physical forms of violence such as economic and psychological abuse . three-fourths of the complainants in our study had suffered physical violence, almost all had a history of abuse, most reported that the abuse had recently become worse and one out of every two complainants had received a death threat. .