The Forms and Reasons of Violence Against Wives in Jordanian Society, "An Empirical Study:

Abstract

This study carried out to see "violence against married women in Jordanian society," A field Study: The Role of the Family Protection Department, "the study population consisted of women who have been subjected to violence and applied formal complaint against their husbands in three areas ( Family Protection headquarters, Family Protection Department east of Amman, Family Protection Department north of Amman) this includes the study population "'dynamic society" meaning it's variable which makes it difficult to determine the number of audits of women on an continuous basis, Family Protection Department was chosen of being interested in battered issues and cases are formally recorded, due to the difficulty of accessing to the population of the study, the researcher had to take a random sample of (155) battered women at the Family Protection Department centers, but (5) questionnaires were disqualified for non-suitability tests for statistical analysis, and thus the number of questionnaires qualified to perform statistical analysis operations was (150), using (Statistical Package for Social Sciences -SPSS, ver15) in order to reach the goals and objectives of this study.; and the most prominent results of the study consisted of the following: the highest percentage subjected to violence were with little education, as for the percentage of people with university education were the lowest, and that the majority subjected to violence were a low-income, and the most prevalent form of violence was sexual violence by (1.5219)), followed by physical violence by (1.5011)) followed by psychological violence by (1.4517). One of the main reasons behind the problem of violence against married women is the low level of household income, the spouse engagement in social media and the intervention of the husband's family in the marital life of the wife. Family Protection Department has a leading role in addressing the problem of violence against women, especially with the existence of legal protection provided by the Family Protection Administration to assist battered women and specialists to deal with cases of violence against women as well as awareness and guidance sessions administration.