in this article a very brief history of violence against women in domestic settings is developed. on the whole, 18 focus group discussion (fgd) (including 4 pilot fgds), were conducted in southern part of teheran capital of iran among different groups of people (literate, illiterate, married, unmarried, male, female). further, 30 individual interviews conducted with violence and family affaire ...

The goal of this study was to track the steps of families that committed some kind of violence against their children and faced judicial intervention, as well as to explore their perceptions about the events involving such intervention; to quantify and assess the lawsuits, during the period from 2000 to 2005, characterizing situations of family violence and re-victimization. The study was theor...

: working in street as a part of child labor is a global problem. several studies have focused on familial factors of child labor in iran. this study is going to present the issue of child labor and its risk factors and impacts on street children in tehran. this study used rapid assessment and response method in 1391-92 in tehran. samples were recruited from street children in tehran as well as...

OBJECTIVES During intrafamilial conflicts children are often innocent bystanders, caught in the crossfire. In such situations, they are at increased risk to become directly involved in abusive verbal behavior of the perpetrator, and exposed to being shouted or yelled at, threatened, rejected and even physically abused. The present study has two main objectives: (1) ascertain a national base rat...

The physical and psychological consequences of armed conflict and intimate partner violence are well documented. Less research focuses on their intersection and the linkages between domestic violence, gender-based discrimination, and the structural violence of poverty in armed conflict. This paper describes emerging themes from qualitative interviews with young women who have returned from abdu...

514 men and 891 women college students provided information concerning behaviors both they and their partners used within the prior six months to resolve conflicts in their relationships. Multivariate analyses assessed whether experiencing the divorce of one's parents would be associated with respondents' report of their own or their partners' conflict behaviors. Students from divorced families...