Domestic Violence against Women: A Study of Ward No. 6 of Belbari VDC, Morang District

Abstract

This study focused on Domestic Violence Against Women in Ward No. 6 of Belbari VDC,Morang District.This study was carried out by using primary data collected in the field surveyas well as secondary data. There are 319 household and 1775 population in selected area and among them 125 respondents are selected by the lottery method of simple random sampling. The main objective of this study is to examine the knowledge and awareness ofwomen on domestic violence, to examine the knowledge of women on legal provision, to identify the causes of domestic violence and find out the solution to eliminate domestic violence against women. The study populations included on marred, widow, divorce and separated women age group between 15-45 years. The women between 25-34 age, 94.5 percent, Dalit 100 percent, women having 4 and more children 100 percent, women in joint family 95.2 percent, women having primary education, 95.2 percent, women depending on agriculture 92.8 percent are found victimized of DV. In the study, it is found that domestic violence is heavy to the divorced women,married women, uneducated women, housewife women and daily wage women. According to field survey, out of total respondents,96.8 percent knew about domestic violence against women and 92 percent women are victim of domestic violence with their family member. The status of women's legal right and community based organization is poor.According to the opinion of respondents the causes of DVAW is alcoholism, lack of awareness, lack of implementation of law and employment. In the study, 80.8 percent said improve women status, 38.4 percent said punished perpetrators , 36.8 percent said awareness and 4 percent said others to eliminate or to redeem domestic violence. The study, on domestic violence against women basically deals with the women problem through which women are passing their day. The violence is found deeply rooted in the society which suffocating women. the violence against them is due to the patriarchal social norms and values which are against women and their full fetched growth as social living.