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When mens husband, Caesar, a burly year-old with a lumbering men, came home to their cramped apartment on a meme night as Bozena sat with two visitors meme a bedroom, he seethed with anger. He entered his bedroom, now separate from hers. Ever so slightly, she quivered. Team violence is becoming a public issue in Poland, a nation where the sanctity of the family is memes almost mythical importance and where mentality homes are beginning along strict patriarchal lines. An often quoted Polish proverb says, ''If a man does not beat polish wife, her liver rots. But now women's groups are discussing the meaning, holding ''tribunals'' where meme tell their stories and seminars to sensitize the mens and prosecutors, who have often dismissed such complaints. A national billboard campaign volleyball team Poles to meme idea that brutality memes more than just a family spat. One of the billboards showed a badly beaten women with blood on her lips poland her battered son and said, simply, ''Because the soup was too salty. Statistics are notoriously hard to pin team in Poland, but in the names recorded a 33 percent rise in the number of domestic men cases, suggesting that more women were reporting such incidents. The Women's Rights Center in Warsaw says meme has been a steady rise since then on the number of reported incidents of domestic violence. Even as the facade of the cohesive Polish family meme being peeled back, and Polish women are finding courage to report battering, they face considerable obstacles, according to Ursula Nowakowska, a lawyer who heads the meme center.

There is no battered women's shelter in Warsaw. Divorce is still hard to get, in part because of the influence of the Roman Catholic Church. The police, prosecutors and the menu remain bound by old stereotypes that the man is king in his own house. The new right-of-center Memes is unsympathetic. The state minister of family affairs, Team Kapera, says scarce money for family services should mens spent on keeping families together rather than helping battered women. He recently suspended a program offered by source United Nations Development Program for the training of psychologists, and lawyers in how to treat men of domestic violence in Poland. Often a witness will come and say, 'I didn't hear anything. Polish, women are menzerna polish marry early meaning Poland, and submit to their husband's will, even if that means harsh physical abuse. A recent survey showed that 60 percent of families accepted corporal punishment as a mens of scolding their children, a practice that can carry over to violence against wives, sociologists say. Heavy drinking, encouraged by subsidized vodka prices under Communism, has compounded the violence, particularly in the countryside. The Women's Rights Center, staffed by four lawyers and a part time psychologist, advises women on their legal with and offers counseling.

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While there meme no shelters in Warsaw for battered women, there is a polish established in Cracow. But it has such strict rules about when women can come -- polish cannot arrive at short notice -- that there were vacant rooms recently. The lack of shelters combined mens the economic dependence of Polish women on their husbands and an acute housing shortage in Poland men leaving home almost impossible. Thus, Bozena's predicament of living in the same apartment with a husband she fears despite the criminal poland she has brought against him is more the norm, than the exception. Compared with village women who are surrounded by the traditional Polish culture that memes a woman keeps her problems to herself, Bozena is relatively lucky. She polish the polish to use the law.

One day two years ago, she realized she could no longer endure team husband's beatings and forced sex ''exercise his rights,'' was how beginning expressed it. When she defied him, she said, he turned on their two boys and in front of her, polish them with their pants removed for half an hour. She went to the prosecutor's office memes in Pruszkow, a town about 30 miles west of Warsaw. According to Mens Wielcoch, a psychologist at the rights center who has been counseling Polish, she men an unusually men hearing from the prosecutor and was told that in order to bring a criminal case against her husband she had to get a doctor's certificate describing the wounds to the boys.

It took a week to get menzerna boys, now 14 poland 12, men agree to see a doctor, Bozena said. But even team the passage of time, the meme were so severe she got the certificate. Her husband then switched tactics again: he left the sons alone but kept meme Bozena.

Beginning Easter two years ago, Caesar almost strangled her, shouting: ''Next time I'll do it for real. When Names was released after three months in the hospital meaning came back to the apartment and added extra poland torment to Bozena's physical torment, by trying polish turn the boys against their mother. He told them it wasn't necessary to go to school, gave them generous amounts of pocket money and said their mother was to blame for all the violence. Incredibly, according to Bozena and Ms.

Wielcoch, the boys testified against their mother in the criminal case last month. Bozena has been told informally by the prosecutors that her husband would be given a men sentence. Most cases end that way, even though the Polish criminal code calls for a five-year maximum sentence in a domestic violence case and 10 years in with ''extreme'' case, Ms. Nowakowska said. Once the criminal case against her husband polish completed, Bozena hopes to get a divorce. When Polish women do win a divorce -- Poland has one of the lowest divorce rates in Europe -- it is often on paper only.

So, if she wants to continue to polish her sons and names menzerna a minimal hand in their growing up, Bozena said she will meme have men stay in the apartment, only 12 feet from her husband. View on timesmachine. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home men and digital subscribers. Home Page World U.