Married to an abusive man, Nang* experienced physical abuse by her husband on several occasions. In fact, the physical violence affected her brain and movement to the point where she cannot turn her head normally and suffers from head tremors from time to time. To prevent her children from becoming victims of domestic violence, she urged them to move out but decided to stay with her husband because she claimed that if she left him, nobody would take care of him as everyone in his family had already abandoned him.
Nang is one of many victims who was interviewed by researchers as part of a 2016 study — conducted by Montakarn Chuemchit, assistant dean at the College of Public Health Sciences (CPHS), Chulalongkorn University — looking into domestic violence. The study was conducted across four regions of Thailand and the results showed that…
