Domestic Violence And Child Welfare In Serere District A Case Study Of Olio Sub-County Serere District

ABSTRACT

Tb is study focused on the effect of Domestic Violence on Children’s Welfare at Quo Sub County Serere District, with the general objectives being to establish the impact of domestic violence on children’s welfare. The specific objectives of the study were to examine the causes of domestic violence among families, to examine the effect of domestic violence on child welfare, to establish challenges faced by children in families characterized by

domestic violence, to establish the copying strategies for children faced with domestic violence and to find out measures that can be taken by government and other policy makers to ensure that children receive better welfare in families faced by domestic violence. A

response schedule method was used to select children during the study, while an interview was administered on leaders, a response scheduled was administered to parents and children and a self-administered questionnaires was administered.

The results of the study presented a situation that domestic violence in its full forms has not come to the understanding of the people. This is because domestic violence existed in the light forms and that attract little concern such as; sexual abuse, poverty, orphaned

situations, HIV/AIDS and negligence/ignorance of the parents and children are the overriding causes of domestic violence while child headed families, dullness of the child and stepmother role also caused domestic violence. The actors dealing with domestic violence in families were given out like the police and the role of the civil society, the study findings showed effects of domestic violence physical torture, poverty and psychological

stress

The study concluded that domestic violence exists in Olio sub-county, in a light forms, that is why some people could not easily associate such work activities with domestic violence. The study recommends that local councils should enforce the program of domestic relations

bill with coercion in their areas; sensitization ought to be done given massive ignorance of domestic violence forms like sexual abuse among others.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1)ECLARATION

APPROVAL

DEDICATION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iv

TABLE OF CONTENTS v

LIST OF TABLES

LiST OF ACRONYMS x

ABSTRACT

CHAPTER ONE 1

~NTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY 1

1 .0 Introduction 1

1 .1 Back ground of the study 1

1 .2 Statement of the problem 3

1.3 Purpose of the study 3

1 .4 Research Objectives 4

1.5 Research questions 4

1.6 Scope of the study 4

1 .6.1 Geographical scope 4

1.6.2 Content scope 4

1.6.3 Time scope

1 .7 Significance of the study 5

1 .8 Conceptual Framework 6

ChAPTER TWO 7

LITERATURE REVIEW 7

2.0 Introduction 7

2,1 Causes of Domestic Violence in Families 7

2.2 Challenges faced by parents and children in domestic violence situation 9

2.3 The Effects of Domestic Violence on Children 13

2.4 Long-Term Effects of Domestic Violence on Women and Children 17

2.5 Solutions to address domestic violence 19

CHAPTER THREE 26

METHODOLOGY .26

3.0 Introduction 26

3,1 Research design 26

3.2 Sample Population of the study 26

3.3 Sampling methodology 28

3.3.1 Random sampling technique 28

3.3.2 Purposive sampling: 28

3.4 Data sources 28

3.4.1 Primary Source of data 28

3.4.2 Secondary source of data 29

3.5 Data analysis 29

CHAPTER FOUR 30

PRESENTATION OF FINDINGS 30

-4.0 Introduciion 30

‘1.1 Socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents 30

4.1.1 Sex of the respondents 30

4.~i To identify the causes of domestic violence among women in Quo Sub County 32

4.3 Challenges faced by children and women in families prone to domestic violence in

Quo Sub County 36

4.-I Possible solutions to the problem of domestic violence among children and women in

Quo Sub County 37

4.5 Relationship between domestic violence and child welfare 38

ChAPTER FIVE 39

DISCUSSION, RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSION 39

5.0 Introduction 39

5.1 Discussion 39

5.1.1.1 Distribution of Respondents by Gender 39

5.1.1.2 Disti’ibution of Respondents by Age 39

5.1,1.3 Level of education 39

5.1.1.4 Occupation of the respondents 40

5.1.3 Ieasures undertaken to overcome domestic violence 42

5.2 Recommendations.43

5.3 Conclusions 43

5,4 Areas for further research 44

APPENDiCES 45

APPENDIX A: QUESTIONNAIRE 45

APPENDIX B: INTERVIEW 47

APPENDIX C: PROPOSED BUDGET FOR RESEARCH WORK 49

APPENDIX D: RESEARCH TIME FRAME/TIME SCALE 50

REFERENCES 51