Untying knots: Cambodian women face social judgment, depression after divorce

VOA News

Center

High Factuality

Government: U.S. Agency for Global Media

Untying knots: Cambodian women face social judgment, depression after divorce

Phnom Penh — “He brutally used violence against me. … He hit me. He grabbed my neck. I really had a hard time when I was with him, and my mental health was very unstable.” When Thach Chanty, a 35-year-old woman from the southeastern Cambodian province of Kampong Cham recalls life with her former husband, “My tears almost fall down.” Chanty, who works as a garment worker, now struggles to support her two children in the aftermath of a marriage sh…