Abuse

"Like a compass needle that points North a mans accusing finger will always find a woman. Always." Abuse comes in many different ways, physically, emotionally, psychologically.  It is understandable that not all inflictions come from males, females can inflict harm on the opposite sex just as equally. But most prominent in our society is the abuse of men on woman. Woman all over the world are harmed, in some countries it is seen as a norm. Is it normal to see your own mother beaten in front of your eyes--sometimes to death, and by someone nonetheless than your father?
In A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Mouseein we witness the story of Mariam and Laila, who's lives through chance of fate bind them together in their endurance against their negation of rights and the abuse of man. Mariam's mother and her are rejected by her fathers families (his five wife's), and after a turn of fate is forced to marry a man almost thrice her age. She later has to endure the abuse of her alcoholic, masochistic husband and there is nothing she can do because society and the government is on her husbands side, woman are to be treated as property, nothing more than dogs. Along comes Laila who also becomes tied to Mariam's world and her husband Rasheed. She is at first treated as a trophy by Rasheed, but after she fails her husbands expectations she is thoroughly beaten and abused just as Mariam is and was abused since she was fifteen years old.
Woman are publicly abused to the extremes in a lot of third world countries just like in AnThousand Splendid Suns. In Afghanistan alone, "An estimated 2,000 Afghan women and girls attempt suicide by setting themselves on fire each year, which is linked to domestic violence and early or forced marriages." But it does not just happen in other countries, we must first take a glance in our own back yards. "More than 4 million women experience physical assault and rape by their partners. Men are victims of nearly 3 million physical assaults in the USA."
Abuse and maltreatment of anybody; men, woman, and children has to come to an end. If we join forces and pay more attention to what is going on in our world and the major negligence that we bestow on ourselves we can conquer the evil that is found in harming one another.