Abstract

In the recent years Domestic Violence in Uganda has been on the rise and it has affected people in many families especially children. women and men. These continue to be adversely impacted b) the Domestic Violence which occurs in families and homes. However there has not been sufficient research professing the causes and impacts of Domestic Violence on women. children and men. This research is intended to fill the gaps left out. Domestic Violence as a term has turned out to be the most efficient term used to as a legal characterization to describe and categorize battering in relationships. Jaffe and Wilson observed that: '"There is growing recognition that while women are abused by men, are still the primar) victims of abuse, battering occurs in same-sex relationships and that in some cases 11 omen abuse men. furthermore. Domestic Violence focuses our attention on the broader social and legal contexts of battering ruther than on victims and their individual psychologies. It also includes material that reaches beyond the narro11 phenomenon or ph) sica! battering to a definition or violence that includes all forms of power and control used by perpetrators, including sexual, financiaL and emotional abuse" 1