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Domestic Violence and Suicidal Ideation are significant causes of deaths among women in India. The majority of victims were found to be young women,mostly killed by burning or strangulation methods. The most frequently reported motive was doing way demands followed by a history of domestic violence or harassment and family conflict. The findings highlight the need for stronger prevention/intervention programs in India to identity and intervene with women at high risk for being killed and/or committing suicide.Suicidal ideation and domestic violence are one of the most important contributors to the global burden of decease among women, but little is known about prevalence and modifiable risk factors in low and middle income countries from W.HO multi-country women to examine the prevalence of suicidal thoughts and attempts.
Keywords: domestic violence, family conflict, risk factor
Domestic violence
Domestic violence is one of the crimes against women which are linked to their disadvantages position in the society. Domestic violence refers to violence against women especially in matrimonial homes. Therefore domestic violence is recognized as the significant barriers of the empowerment of women, with consequences of women health, their health health-seeking behavior and their adoption of small family norms. Domestic violence that is any act of physical, sexual, or psychological abuse, connected to her through marriage, family relation or acquaintanceship is universal and has its root in the socio cultural set up of the society. The perpetrators of domestic violence have often been found to be the males and the victims, their sexual partners. Internationally, one in three women have been beaten, coerced into sex or abused in their lifetime by a member of her own family (Heise et al., 1999).The term "violence against women"means any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or private life. Physical, sexual and psychological violence occurring in the family, including battering, sexual abuse of female children in the household, dowry related violence, marital rape, female genital mutilation and other traditional practices harmful to women, non-spousal violence and violence related to exploitation, physical, sensual and psychological violence occurring within the general community, including rape,...