MARRIED WOMEN’S VIEW ABOUT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN RELATION TO THEIR AGE AND SOCIAL CATEGORY: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF KANDAGHAT BLOCK OF DISRICT SOLAN

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Violence with in home is widespread and affects women throughout the society across all religious, class and caste boundaries. Domestic violence refers to any act of violence in the house. It includes differential treatment of girls, wife beating and abuse, torture of daughters-in-law and neglect of widowed women in the family. Domestic violence is one of the crimes against women which is linked to their disadvantageous position in the society. Therefore, domestic violence is recognized as the significant barriers of the empowerment of women, with consequences of women’s health, their health health-seeking behaviour and their adoption of small family norm. However, an attempt has been made by the researcher to study married women’ view about the domestic violence against them. The present study has been conducted in the developmental block Kandaghat of district Solan in Himachal Pradesh. The analysis shows that the most of the married women belonging to reserved category are likely to agree with all five reasons in the study for justifying the violence. Again domestic violence is more among women belonging to reserved categories. The reason I was reported as the minimum reason for the domestic violence by ever married women of the age group 20-30 years. The women of the age group 40-50 years viewed the reason II as the minimum cause for domestic violence and the women of the same age group recorded the reason III as least cause for the domestic violence against them. The more such views were recorded by the ever married women of the region who agree with one specific reason for justifying the domestic violence against them.

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