objective: this paper explores the relationship between domestic violence against women inflicted by husbands, unwanted pregnancy and pregnancy termination of bangladeshi urban women. materials and methods: the study used the nationally representative 2007 bangladesh demographic and health survey (bdhs) data. the bdhs covered a representative sample of 10,996 ever married women from rural and u...

This paper reviews the growing body of research literature on the relationship of domestic violence to welfare. Not only do women on welfare suffer from domestic violence in far greater numbers than women in the general population, but their abusers, threatened by the women's efforts at education, training, or work, also use violence and threats of violence to sabotage these efforts at economic...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to detect the role of early maladaptive schemas in a variety of domestic violence cases against women with an experience of violence. Methods: In this study, a correlational design was used. The sample consisted of 197 women living in Tehran, who had experienced various levels of violence. The instruments consisted of Young Schema Questionnaire-Short ...

While a lot of Psychologists, Sociologists and Criminologists, have profound anxiety with regard to growth of harshness in streets and public places, the probability of ones get into attack in family is more than it. Violence against women is a kind of violent behavior related to sexuality that leads to hurt or perhaps ensue to physical, sexually and psychological damages. The aim of this resea...

Research on violence against women has improved and provides important information on patterns, prevalence, risk and consequences of this major threat to female well-being. Since the identification of violence against women as a problem worthy of study in 1970, evident progress has been made in understanding physical, psychological and sexual violence against women. However, while methodologica...

a study on the demestic violence in women with addicted and non-addicted husbands reffered to forensic center of urmia, iran     aghakhani n [1] ,mosavi e [2] ,eftekhari a [3] ,eghtedar s [4] ,zareei a [5] ,mesgarzadeh m [6] ,rahbar n [7] , nikoonajaz ar [8] *     received: 8 oct , 2013 accepted: 20 nov , 2013   abstract   background & aims: violence against women is a phenomenon in which women...

conclusions as one of the manifestations and the moving force of empowerment, education is the first major strategy in codifying, designing, and implementing empowerment programs. for women to be empowered, the active participation of all people in education is required. results results indicated that the frequency of domestic violence against participating women was significant after education...

We present key findings on the evidence from research studies on violence against women with disabilities and evidence from interventions to prevent violence. Responses to prevent and address gender based violence against women in this high risk group need to take into account the intersection of gender and disability and how this increases the vulnerability of women with disabilities to violen...

while men’s violence is assessed within their social life, women’s violence is attributed to personal factors, such as mental stress, aggression and/or womanish nervousness, regardless of social factors. unlike such a common interpretation that tries to associate violence of women with interpretations of stereotypes and individual, in this article, violence of women will be explained in terms o...