The lack of food can be such a toxic stressor, especially when it’s persistent over time, that it can trigger violence in the home. Any family facing food insecurity also leaves the dependents more vulnerable to abuse due to this toxic environment and likely to stay in violent partnerships for the provision of food.

As gender inequality is a prominent factor across the world, this leaves a lot of women facing greater obstacles to divorce than men for many reasons including beliefs that a divorced woman is “impure”, and of course the financial reasons, women are at a higher risk of losses in terms of quality and security of housing after divorce.