Research Sheds Light On Domestic Violence In Armenia

[Tigranakert]

Almost one in ten women in Armenian has been physically ill-treated by their husbands or partners, according to government research commissioned by a United Nations agency.

In what was the most comprehensive ever study of domestic violence in the country, the National Statistical Service interviewed nearly 2,800 female residents aged between 15 and 59 in late 2008 and early 2009. Yerevan-based representatives of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) made its findings available to RFE/RL’s Armenian service on Thursday

They show that 9 percent of respondents said they were occasionally or regularly beaten in domestic disputes. Another 3.3 percent alleged sexual abuse, usually accompanied by physical violence, at the hands of their husbands or boyfriends. A quarter of those polled claimed to have faced intimidation and other types of “psychological pressure.”

The UNFPA survey identifies “economic violence” as another form of domestic violence. According to it, 7.5 percent of Armenian women are not allowed to work, while 8 percent of those having jobs are forced to give their incomes to their male partners.

“We live in a patriarchal society,” Garik Hayrapetian, deputy head of the UNFPA’s Yerevan office, told RFE/RL, commenting on the results of the survey.

“The man plays the role of family protector and main breadwinner. That brings with it a sense that if he is the main breadwinner then he must have final say, and any objection to that leads to what we have,” he said.

In another finding emphasized by Hayrapetian, more than half of the female respondents justified the beating of wives and girlfriends for infidelity and other perceived serious offenses. Such attitudes are particularly prevalent among women in rural areas, the UNFPA official said.

http://www.armenialiberty.org/content/article/2119815.html

[Tigranakert]

Re: Research Sheds Light On Domestic Violence In Armenia

Positive results, in ''oh-so-advanced and equal Europe'' 11% (in The Netherlands) of the women are regularly abused! I guess Europeans can learn a lot from us, besides our lower abuse rate, the ''fake-equality-story'' has caused more than 40% of the women in Holland to cheat on their husbands.

ls we de gebeurtenissen binnen en buiten de kring van verwanten combi-neren, blijkt dat bijna 40% van de vrouwen vóór het zestiende jaar een of meer ervaringen met seksueel misbruik heeft gehad.

Child abuse is also very common in The Netherlands (luckily not as much as in Armenia). It states that 40% of all female children have been sexually abused before their 16th year.

http://www.seksueelgeweld.nl/linkinformatie/linkinformatieDetails.php?linkinformatie_id=27

[KanadaHye]

Re: Research Sheds Light On Domestic Violence In Armenia

Almost one in ten women in Armenian has been physically ill-treated by their husbands or partners, according to government research commissioned by a United Nations agency.

In what was the most comprehensive ever study of domestic violence in the country, the National Statistical Service interviewed nearly 2,800 female residents aged between 15 and 59 in late 2008 and early 2009. Yerevan-based representatives of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) made its findings available to RFE/RL’s Armenian service on Thursday

They show that 9 percent of respondents said they were occasionally or regularly beaten in domestic disputes. Another 3.3 percent alleged sexual abuse, usually accompanied by physical violence, at the hands of their husbands or boyfriends. A quarter of those polled claimed to have faced intimidation and other types of “psychological pressure.”

The UNFPA survey identifies “economic violence” as another form of domestic violence. According to it, 7.5 percent of Armenian women are not allowed to work, while 8 percent of those having jobs are forced to give their incomes to their male partners.

“We live in a patriarchal society,” Garik Hayrapetian, deputy head of the UNFPA’s Yerevan office, told RFE/RL, commenting on the results of the survey.

“The man plays the role of family protector and main breadwinner. That brings with it a sense that if he is the main breadwinner then he must have final say, and any objection to that leads to what we have,” he said.

In another finding emphasized by Hayrapetian, more than half of the female respondents justified the beating of wives and girlfriends for infidelity and other perceived serious offenses. Such attitudes are particularly prevalent among women in rural areas, the UNFPA official said.

Prevalence of Domestic Violence

In a 1995-1996 study conducted in the 50 States and the District of Columbia, nearly 25% of women and 7.6% of men were raped and/or physically assaulted by a current or former spouse, cohabiting partner, or dating partner/acquaintance at some time in their lifetime (based on survey of 16,000 participants, equally male and female).

Patricia Tjaden & Nancy Thoennes, U.S. Dep't of Just., NCJ 181867, Extent, Nature, and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence, at iii (2000), available at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/pubs-sum/181867.htm


You can find these statistics all over the internet, but what is the point aside from sheding light on what people already know... couples fight regardless of gender or sex or "family roles".
http://new.abanet.org/domesticviolen...tatistics.aspx

[Tigranakert]

Re: Research Sheds Light On Domestic Violence In Armenia

This research has show that the rumour of Armenian men being more violent towards their spouse, is groundless. We can even conclude we are less violent compared to ''civilized'' Europeans.

[Mos]

Re: Research Sheds Light On Domestic Violence In Armenia

at least it's not like the women killer iranians

[bell-the-cat]

Re: Research Sheds Light On Domestic Violence In Armenia

“We live in a patriarchal society,” Garik Hayrapetian, deputy head of the UNFPA’s Yerevan office, told RFE/RL, commenting on the results of the survey.

“The man plays the role of family protector and main breadwinner. That brings with it a sense that if he is the main breadwinner then he must have final say, and any objection to that leads to what we have,” he said.

In another finding emphasized by Hayrapetian, more than half of the female respondents justified the beating of wives and girlfriends for infidelity and other perceived serious offenses. Such attitudes are particularly prevalent among women in rural areas, the UNFPA official said.

http://www.armenialiberty.org/conten...e/2119815.html

He lives in a society that, through living in close proximity, has adopted many of the "values" held by Armenia's Islamic neighbours.

Plus, in a nation of mostly powerless male individuals (be they powerless from living within an Islamic society, or a Communist society, or a society run by mafiosi-backed corrupt politicians), some men may take out their resentment against that lack of power over their own futures by targeting the women in their lives since most of them would have even less power than most men have.

[levon]

Re: Research Sheds Light On Domestic Violence In Armenia

He lives in a society that, through living in close proximity, has adopted many of the "values" held by Armenia's Islamic neighbours.

And I'm sure according to your twisted logic, the same behaviors that existed in the US 60 years ago were also the result of living in close proximity with "islamic neighbors?" Correct? But wait, where were these so called "islamic neighbors?" East, west, north, south? North and south are not islamic, so it must have been in the east or the west, so I guess a race of ocean dwelling muslims from the pacific or the atlantic had corrupted US culture until mainstream feminism came and "saved everyone"

[Haykakan]

Re: Research Sheds Light On Domestic Violence In Armenia

And I'm sure according to your twisted logic, the same behaviors that existed in the US 60 years ago were also the result of living in close proximity with "islamic neighbors?" Correct? But wait, where were these so called "islamic neighbors?" East, west, north, south? North and south are not islamic, so it must have been in the east or the west, so I guess a race of ocean dwelling muslims from the pacific or the atlantic had corrupted US culture until mainstream feminism came and "saved everyone"

You always resort to illogical arguments and calling everyone and anyone a feminist when confronted with facts. Does not your monotone mind tire of this exercise? Your assertion that islamic values have nothing to do with how people like you think is like you looking in the mirror and seeing a feminist. Then again we did establish that you are a liberal (not like its a bad thing anyways... ) so who knows.

[levon]

Re: Research Sheds Light On Domestic Violence In Armenia

You always resort to illogical arguments and calling everyone and anyone a feminist when confronted with facts. Does not your monotone mind tire of this exercise? Your assertion that islamic values have nothing to do with how people like you think is like you looking in the mirror and seeing a feminist. Then again we did establish that you are a liberal (not like its a bad thing anyways... ) so who knows.

Read what Bell-the-cat wrote, then read my response, and try harder to understand the sarcasm in my post, because each time you make a post like the above without even pretending to have followed the response chain you risk the chance of making yourself look like a complete idiot.

[Tigranakert]

Re: Research Sheds Light On Domestic Violence In Armenia

He lives in a society that, through living in close proximity, has adopted many of the "values" held by Armenia's Islamic neighbours.

Plus, in a nation of mostly powerless male individuals (be they powerless from living within an Islamic society, or a Communist society, or a society run by mafiosi-backed corrupt politicians), some men may take out their resentment against that lack of power over their own futures by targeting the women in their lives since most of them would have even less power than most men have.

You are not even Armenian but yet you tend to know the Armenian culture inside out? Mostly I ignore your comments because it always has some kind negativism in it (what is your connection to the Armenian people by the way?).

How can it be that people in The Netherlands or Great Britain, who have no muslim neighbours, target their women more often than Armenians? Western Europeans are powerless slaves who only know how to work like a robot from 08:00 till 17:00 and live in a fake so-called democratic country with no morales/values, having forgotten their culture and go to swinger clubs every night to share their wives. Corruptness and war is invented by Western imperialistic countries.

This problem needs to be taken care of but is something that is common in every other country in the world, it is because of the xxxxness of human kind in general.