Role of Family Environment and Domestic Violence

The epidemic of violence directed at women and girls constitutes a major human rights issue and a public health crisis. Around the world women are regularly beaten and sexually abused by intimate partners, family members, neighbors, and by people not known to them. Besides the physical suffering to women, such violence has a profound impact on women's psychological well-being, on their reproductive health and security of their families and communities. The study was aimed to evaluate the role of family environment in relation to violence against women. The present study was carried out on a sample population of 35 women consecutively attending Mahila Salah Suraksha Kendra, Violence against women counseling Centre Jaipur and same number of control group vertical taken from relative of these women with suitable inclusion and exclusion criteria. The two groups were compared for their following measures of Sociodemographic Proforma and Identification Data Sheet, moos family environment scale (Indian cultural norms as per end Hindi adoption by Joshi and Vyas, (1987).The results revealed that The case group woman have demonstrated significant less mean scores on all the ten measures of family environment scale (viz. cohesion, expressiveness, conflict, independence, achievement orientation, intellectual orientation, active recreational orientation, moral religious emphasis).It's suggest that case group women have come from poor family environment.