A STUDY ON FAMILY VIOLENCE IN SHIRAK PROVINCE
ARMENPRESS
MAY 21, 2010
GYUMRI
"Supporter" ("Ajakits") charitable non-governmental organization has
conducted polling in Shirak province to find out the extent to which
the family violence is spread.
Director of the organization Heghine Lazarian told Armenpress that
violation cases have been registered either in the family or in the
surrounding of the 60 %.
According to H. Lazarian, the number of the people who undergo
violence is actually larger, just many do not voice about this
phenomenon. All the forms of violonce come across. According to the
director, if previously the speech was about the physical violance,
then today the society being quite competent on different forms of
violence, also speaks about the psychological and sexual forms.
"We cannot distinctly say of which kind of families the violence is
typical, but we find that the ones having a low life and education
level comprise a larger number. I do not reject that this defective
phenomenon also comes across in well-to-do families . This is a
general phenomenon, that exists in the soceity.
The worst is that the families where violance is committed against
the mother, grandmother or another member of the family in presence
of the chilld, the latter, too, becomes a victim. That is why we must
prevent the violance from the very beginning," H. Mkrtchayn said.