The study aimed at identifying the extent of the following family
problems: violence against the wife in its various forms (verbal, physical,
financial, sexual, and social), also, the violence against children, family
salaciousness, family fragility and the degree to which wives perform their
marital roles, and the relation between the existence of these problems and the
wives Studied roles.
The study was conducted in three villages selected randomly from
three districts in Al Gharbia governorate. The sample was 350 wives. A
prepared questionnaire was used to collect the data. The data were collected in
a personal interview with the respondents in March and April 2017. After
collecting the data, it was statistically analyzed using numerical scale tables,
percentages and Pearson's simple correlation coefficient.
The most important results were as follows:
- The majority of respondents were in the low-level category of violence
against the wife, the highest percentage was 94.3% for sexual violence, and
the lowest 60.6% was verbal violence, while the lowest percentage was in the
high level of violence against the wife. The highest was 8.9 % of verbal
violence, and the lowest 0.6% for sexual violence.
- The highest percentage of respondents (58.3%) sees that the problem of
family salaciousness exist in moderate degree, and the lowest percentage (4%)
see it as high.
- The majority of respondents (79.7%) sees that the problem of family fragility
is low, and the lowest percentage 2.6% sees its presence high.
- The majority of the respondents see that they are performing their marital
roles with a high degree namely: nutrition, child care, child socialization,
facilitating education, teaching children the principles of religion, preparing
girls for practical life.
- There is an inverse relationship between the existence of the following
family problems: violence against the wife, violence against the children,
family fragility, and the wife's performance of her role in nutrition.
- There is an inverse relationship between the existences of the following
family problems: violence against the wife, violence against children, family
fragility, and the performance of the wife for her role in children care and
socializing them.
- There is a direct relationship between the existence of the following family
problems: violence against the wife, family salaciousness, and the
performance of the wife role as an example.
- There is an inverse coloration between the existence of the following family
problems: social violence against the wife, family salaciousness, and the
performance of the wife's role in facilitating the education for the children.
- There is an inverse correlation between all the studied family problems
except the problem of sexual violence against the wife, and between the
performance of the wife for her role in teaching children the principles of
religion.
- There is an inverse correlation between the existence of the following family
problems: violence against the wife, against the children, and family fragility,
and between the performance of the wife for her role in preparing the girls for
practical life.