Sociocultural factors that influence women victims of domestic violence

Abstract

The domestic violence is a problem of physical and mental health that afflicts society today, the rate of women who die at the hands of their cohabitants has grown in the country, the determining factors for this type of problem is given, depends of the culture and parenting patterns that women have from the childhood stage and the environment in which they develop, the reasons why women are forced to endure this type of abuse can be due to the fear they acquire. towards their partner, children or economic factors, however, living under these situations are also putting their lives and their children's lives at risk and predisposing them to be prone to developing attitudes similar to their parents', turning This is a problem transmitted from generation to generation. To determine the sociocultural factors that influence women victims of intrafamily violence will be essential for the intervention from social work, it has been considered as object of study to women who go to the support centers for women in the canton Cuenca del Azuay. Studies conducted by PAHO (Pan American Health Organization) and WHO (World Health Organization), in 2000, identifies ten Latin American countries, which include: Belize, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala , Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and Peru, establish that the majority of acts of violence against women occur due to the environment in which they develop.