Freelance Journalist
Bucharest, Romania
Topic: Reveal the mental health problems associated with family loss as a result of a lack of support systems for affected families.
Published Work:
The roots of violence are socially accepted in religion, tradition, and culture of the Balkan countries. Domestic violence is common in the Balkans and in Romania, where 28 per cent of women between 18 and 49 are believed to have suffered domestic violence.
Women who evict violent husbands from the family home often face disapproval, even outright hostility, from neighbours and relatives in the patriarchal societies in which they live. When 'Marta' applied for a court order to evict her former husband from their home, she was not afraid of the reaction of friends and neighbours in the town of Târgu-Mures, central Romania.
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