Addressing Domestic Violence in Rural Areas: A Comprehensive Report

This report addresses the critical issue of domestic violence in rural areas, focusing on the target group of rural women. It provides a comprehensive overview, beginning with an introduction that highlights the detrimental impact of domestic violence on community development and national growth. The report then delves into the specific challenges faced by rural women, including various forms of abuse such as threats, sexual violence, and family violence. A thorough literature review examines existing research, emphasizing the factors that contribute to the prevalence of domestic violence in these areas, such as economic dependence, narrow-minded social norms, and family structures. The methodology section explains the use of secondary data analysis, including government census data, books, magazines, and interviews. The report identifies key factors to be addressed, such as ensuring participation, facilitating empowerment, promoting social inclusion, and managing conflicts, all of which are vital for reducing domestic violence. Finally, the report explores the sustainability of community development after the withdrawal of facilitators, emphasizing the importance of education, the removal of outdated traditions, and establishing programs for women's development. The conclusion summarizes the key findings and reiterates the need for a multi-faceted approach to combat domestic violence and empower rural women.

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Target group.....................................................................................................................................3
Literature review..............................................................................................................................3
Methodology....................................................................................................................................3
Factors to be responded...................................................................................................................4
Sustainability after withdrawing facilitators from the community..................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction
Domestic violence on women is the biggest issue of the community which has a great
impact on the growth of the country (Hirsch and Cukrowicz, 2015). Domestic violence is the
crime which is degrading the women of the community so it has to be controlled for the up-
gradation of the women. In this report, the certain issues of domestic violence in rural areas will
be explained. The report will also state certain factors which help in reducing domestic violence.

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Target group
The targeted group of women is the rural women of the countries. For the development
of the community and the up-gradation of the country, it is important to raise the women in every
country. Domestic violence has been seen more in the rural women as they get abused with the
incidents of the threatening, sexual violence, coercive, degrading, etc. domestic violence on the
rural women has been seen more by their family members or careers (Adams, et al., 2014). There
are certain forms through which the women are get violated such as the slapping, biting, kicking,
sexual abuse, intimidation stalking, etc. Women in rural and regional areas face more domestic
violence as a comparison to the women in urban areas. There are certain issues which the women
have to be faced as they are living in small communities.
Literature review
According to the author (Scott and Hogg, 2015), any harm related to the physical and
psychological harm through which the women are suffered is termed as domestic violence. There
are certain types of violence’s which have been experienced by rural women such as threats,
coercion, sexual violence, family violence, partner intimate violence, forced marriage, etc. As
per the author (Owen and Carrington, 2015), the most common violence’s which occurs in the
rural areas are domestic violence and intimate partner violence. The women of the rural areas are
forced to intimate when they are not even ready. They got beaten and slapped by their partners if
they refused to do that. Not only sexual violence has been seen in rural women but also the
family violence which disrupted the mind of the women. In Australia, the domestic violence on
the women has been generally found in the rural and the regional areas in which they have to
suffer from the partner violence (Carrington, et al., 2013).
The domestic violence’s has been increased in the rural areas due to certain reasons such
as women got pressurize to stay in the relationship with their partners by the family members,
they are not much stable so they have to be dependent on another person, economic concerns for
themselves, fear of the threat of their partners, etc. The norms of the women in the rural
community are of narrow-minded. In rural communities, the family structures act as the control

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will be normalized in male. The self-reliance also affects domestic violence in rural areas
(Adams, et al., 2014).
Methodology
The research has been done in the targeted group of rural women in comparison to the
targeted group of urban or regional areas that women over rural areas are exploited more and
they go through more with the domestic violence. The research of this data has been done
through secondary data. It is evaluated by the statistical analysis through the census of the
government in terms of the population of women. The information is also collected from books,
magazines, libraries, the internet where the data on domestic violence is easy to find (Boetto and
McKinnon, 2013). The certain information regards to the domestic violence of the rural women
is also gathered from the newspaper, interviews, and the other relevant resources to reach to the
conclusion. By conducting the surveys through the different modes the data of the domestic
violence has been evaluated.
Community toolbox: The rural community has seen major domestic violence in women.
There are the certain challenges which have to be faced by the women in the rural community
such as they have to go through with the certain issues such as lack if the resources, lack of
services, fear of exposure, isolation, leaving the violent relationship, etc. (Gwynne and Lincoln,
2017). In the rural community, women have to face physical challenges such as they are beaten,
abused, slapped, kicked, etc. which not only break their hearts but also break their body. In the
rural areas, the women are getting forced to get married which is the biggest domestic violence.
Factors to be responded
Ensuring participation, Facilitating empowerment, Social inclusion, and managing
conflict: There are the certain factors which have to respond so that the domestic violence can be
reduced in the rural areas and the up liftmen of the women can be done. The women have to
participate in the fundamental prerequisite where democracy is there that everyone is treated
with equal rights. Women in rural areas are engaged with their personal issues only but they have
to engage in public decisions and ensure their better accountability. It is ensured by the

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government that the women of the rural areas should participate in certain activities such as local
elections, social awareness programs, etc. (Campo and Tayton, 2015).
For the empowerment of the women in rural areas, they have to build self-confidence,
independence, and exposure. Due to the discrimination in the communities, the women have to
go through with the domestic violence so if women are accessed with equality in every matter
then their empowerment in the society and the community can be seen. For the development of
the community, it is important to increase the degree of self-determination and autonomy in the
community. The particular community can only be developed when there is equality of gender.
For the development of the community social inclusion is essential as it reduces poverty and
enhances the economic growth of the women (George and Harris, 2014). There is a certain
number of the challenges which the women face in the workplace which creates the conflicts.
Conflicts can be managed by creating a mutual understanding with their partners. In the rural
areas the women get exploited and pressurized by their partners so if there will be the mutual
understandings between the partners then the conflict of the women can be reduced. So there are
certain factors if they are reported properly then the domestic violence can be controlled.
Sustainability after withdrawing facilitators from the community
In rural communities, the major facilitator is the old traditions and the old people who
are still following those old traditions which are exploiting and increasing domestic violence.
Still, the women are forced to get married at the early ages and they are got beaten by their
family members if they refused. So these facilitators will be withdrawn from the community then
the sustainability can become. The trauma has to be given to the women and pressurized by their
partners for getting intimate so if such kinds of facilitators removed from the community then the
up-gradation of the women can be seen (Gwynne and Lincoln, 2017). The community will be
sustained if there will be the proper education facility and programmers established for the
development of the women. The old rituals and spectrums have to be removed and withdrawn so
that the development of the community can be done.

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Conclusion
From the above report, it is analyzed that domestic violence in the rural areas has been
increased which has been measured through the statics data so to remove that certain factors
have to be considered such as empowerment of the women, equality among gender, social
inclusion, the participation of the women in every activity, etc. In this report, the issues of
domestic violence are stated and their measures have been reported.
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