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Reasons for Abused Women’s Reluctance to Seek Help from Institutions concerned with protecting them in Jordan

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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The Jordan Population and Family Health surveys for the years 2012, 2017 and 2018 indicate that the majority of abused women in Jordan refrain from asking for help from institutions concerned with protecting them. This calls for studying the reasons behind such reluctance. Therefore, this study undertakes this task using its qualitative method. The results revealed that this reluctance is caused by four main reasons including the characteristics of individuals, families, local communities and social culture. Those reasons include 44 sub-reasons with a rate of 11 sub-reasons for each main reason. The most repeated sub-reason at the individual level was abused women's fear of the consequences of seeking help. At the family level, the most repeated sub-reason was abused women's lack of support from their families (parents). Moreover, at the community level, the most repeated sub-reasons were the reluctance of women's protection institutions to address women's issues from the perspective of scientific research results and the poor services of the women protection system. The most repeated sub-reason at the cultural level was adherence to social norms related to the husband's abuse of his wife.

DOI

10.21608/ejsw.2023.181317.1173

Keywords

Violence Against women, protecting women from abuse

Authors

First Name

Hajar

Last Name

Nassar

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Turky

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Department of Sociology and Social Work, College of Arts and Human Sciences, Sultan Qabous University, Muscat, Oman

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dr.hajar.nassar@gmail.com

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Fawaz

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Al Ratrout

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Ministry of Social Development, Jordan

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fawaztsr2014@gmail.com

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16

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1

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41765

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2023-06-01

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2022-12-16

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2023-06-01

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129

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146

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2356-9204

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2356-9212

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628

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Egyptian Journal of Social Work

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Reasons for Abused Women’s Reluctance to Seek Help from Institutions concerned with protecting them in Jordan

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30 Dec 2024