J. Appl. Environ. Biol. Sci. , 7(1S)109-118, 2017 ISSN: 2090-4274 Journal of Applied Environmental © 2017, TextRoad Publication and Biological Sciences www.textroad.com Domestic violence against women: A case study of Charsadda Sajjad Ali, Mudassir shah, Asfandyar Khan, Miraj Muhammad, Najbud Din Department of Political Science and International Relation, Qurtaba, University of Science and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan Received: December 22, 2016 Accepted: February 27,2017 ABSTRACT Domestic violence against women in charsadda has various causes which perpetrated Violence against Women. Poverty, illiteracy, low economic condition, culture, norms, patriarchal structure, social structure, misinterpretation of religion, learned helplessness, power and control, learned gender role, desensitization, social modeling, alcohol, socialized behavior and system failure are the some of the causes of domestic violence against women. Women’s freedom, liberty, legal and political rights are effecting by domestic violence. It will make women economically dependent on men. Women suffer from mental and physical problems, hypertension. Domestic violence against women breeds instability in the society and children learned hostile and violent behavior. KEYWORDS : Domestic Violence, Poverty, Low economic conditions INTRODUCTION Domestic violence against women in charsadda is ordinary practice. Female faces various forms of violence against them including; Verbal Violence Verbal violence includes many forms of abuse which not only affecting female prestige but creating frustration to her husband and other members of the family [1]. Pushing, slapping, kicking, beating female with shoes, sticks and side by side to give divorce threats for controlling her to obey his orders [2]. All forms of violence against women have negative outcome for female, affecting their mental condition, self-identity and leads towards the psychological problems. As compare to the physical violence verbal and emotional abuse have more negative implications on female [3]. Verbal violence has various forms. Firstly, Abusive jokes, male uses insulting jokes and statements defining the female’s lower mental level, having no self-respect, poor working capability [4]. Husband used this statement also that female have only ability to talk uselessly while never know about any other work. Secondly, Blaming, husband in charsadda blames their wives for their insecurity, anger and irritations. Husband usually used these blaming phrases: • If you were not so; • You are just trying to provoke a fight; • It’s your fault. Any disturbance in the house hold considered inability of female and giving the title that she has no sense to manage work property as ill mannered. When children involved in wrong activities or weak in education, husband blamed the female for their carelessness and negligence. The usual statements of husbands was; “ tola wraz koor prate e yao kar de hom teak na we ao mashoman de tol besara kral ” ( she have no ability to done household work properlyspends all her day in home whileeven no properly socialize the children). Thirdly, Criticizing of Spouses, wives also face criticism from their husband for their inabilities to perform properly and manage the household affair according to the wishes of the family elders and female faces following remarks [5]: • You are so careless; • You never do anything right; Wives were criticized by their husband for not preparing food on time, no manner to do any work properly, washing dishes etc. Woman who failed to perform her duties is facing abusive words like “ koor ke pa aram nasta e da kor hom la sa kar we? Ta zma pa shan ogata bya ba de pata olagi. ”. (She has not done any productive work in home, just relaxing, while earning was more difficult which was not possible for her). Case Study Miss “A” was 56 years old lady residing in charsadda. She had two daughters and three sons, two sons were married. She told the researcher that her elder sons had no bad company outside and pays attention to *Corresponding Author: Sajjad Ali, Department of Political Science and International Relation, Qurtaba, University of Science and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan. 109 Ali et al., 2017 his father’s advice and was obedient and simple. But her younger son left the education and was indulge in bad company. She said that she herself and her husband was worried and anger with younger son because he mostly has conflict and fights with his fellows and friends and spend most of time outside the home for the useless activities. She told to the researcher that “plar ao za wrta pa nasehatono stari sho liken pohegi na ”. ( her husband and she herself were advising their son all the time but he was not willing to understand them).Whenever he commits any wrong outside the home her husband blaming her for the inadequate socialization of the children Miss “A” also told to the researcher that her younger son was engaged with his uncle’s daughter and her daughter engaged with that uncle’s son (exchange marriage) and Watta-satta , meanwhile her son involved with another female and broke his engagement with his uncle’s daughter. As a result of this his sister’s engagement was also broken by her uncle. Miss “A” narrated the story in her native language as “ zama zwi da jenai da nikah da para ratahtoli wa ho da jenai umar da 18 kalo na kam wo nu court wrla nikah onakra”. (He was ready for want court marriage with that girl but she was under age, therefore, their marriage could not be arranged in court). In spite of his failure, he was insisting to marry that girl, while his father was not willing to accept his proposal. Her husband was angry and disappointed on the ill behavior of his son and was of the view that his wife has not socialize the children according to the norms of the family, while sometimes in prolong argumentation, he beats her being responsible for all that happening in their family[6]. Emotional Violence Emotional abuse includes harsh words in loud voice, strict action to control the situation, actions of assault, threats to demean another person. Emotional abuse is for threading the female and harming her sense of self-worth [7]. Coercive, name-calling, and stalking etc. are the examples of emotional violence. In emotional violence, for gaining the power and control over wife’s feelings hurtful exchanges of words are used. Repeatedly calling the partner that “no one else would have you” or calling “ stupid” are the examples. These wordings were used to abuse the female emotions or emotionally attached people with her. About female character and female appearances male uses negative words to explain her. Men considered women worthless being not beautiful and hurt women’s beliefs. Emotional violence is bringing adverse impact on women, to create confusion among female that any decision is the basic reason of emotional violence. In verbal abuse the most obvious category is calling by bad names. Personal “labels” and insulting names are abusive demeaning sexual references: • Ugly • Bitch • Stupid To degrade the female and posing negative feelings husbands calls the wives with bad names, to take her to right track is the basic purpose of calling with bad names [8]. When husbands intentionally discourage the confidence of their wives, then she believes that they were stupid, useless and a “bad wife”. Being the parents of a daughter culturally bride’s family has a submissive position than groom family and due to this culturally dominating position of groom’s family they can show any type of anger and aggression [9]. So bride’s family has to show respect and tolerance to groom and his family. Due to such type of situation husband takes advantage and petty issues they insult their wives. Wife activities and mobility are checked by husband out of household. Other monitoring activities are following: • her visit are monitor • her messages are monitor • Monitoring of phone cell. In tens domestic situation controlling of movements and behavior is inevitable for the husbands [10]. Misunderstanding and domestic clashes are the outcome of such practice. Such practice keeps them away from any form of intimacy with the outside males. Jealousy is also linked with this behavior of controlling of women [11]. Female became totally dependent on her husband after the marriage; this dependence is economically, socially, psychologically and for every decision even for their visits. Culturally the female were confined within the four walls of house for look after the children and household and without informing male she was not allowed to go outside the house. After the marriage her outside visits are depending on the needs like visit to doctor or death ceremony or parents’ home. In charsadda it’s the tradition that wives frequently mobility outside the house is considered bad even for the males that they cannot control their wives. 110 J. Appl. Environ. Biol. Sci. , 7(1S)109-118, 2017 LITERATURE REVIEW There is very little research work on domestic violence against women in Pakistan. Although some books and research works on domestic violence against women in Pakistan are available but no study has been contacted on domestic violence against women in District charsadda. 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