Women’s groups told the department that husbands who "demonstrate a pattern of causing mental and psychological damage" should face counseling, fines and jail terms, Ivy Josiah, director of the Women’s Aid Organization, told The Associated Press.
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Noorul Ainur said there was a need to criminalize emotional abuse because it could deeply scar a woman’s dignity and self-confidence, the report said.
Interesting. There's also a need to criminalize women turning down men for sex then, too. It could deeply scar their dignity & self-confidence.