Yesterday, the National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) confirmed that most violent acts committed against Thai women and children were done by their loved ones, mostly husbands and boyfriends.
The Board made their statements based on information collected from people that came to the Public Health Ministry’s One-Stop Crisis Center over eight years — from 2007 to 2015. They shared that almost 208,000 women and children sought help from violent situations. Those cases were divided further into being about 106,000 cases, where the victims were children and 102,000 cases with women as victims, reported The Nation.
Last year alone, the number of women and children seeking help from violence was just over 20,000, according to the NESDB.
The main reasons listed for violence against Thai women seeking help were poor relationships and support systems, fighting, jealousy and cheating partners. The person committing the violence was usually a husband or boyfriend.
