A Qualitative Study To Investigate Male Victims’ Experiences Of FemalePerpetrated Domestic Abuse In India With Reference To Gwalior Chambal Division

Abstract

Despite evidence of a significant increase in violence against men by women, female penetrating domestic violence against men has not been studied in India. This study used a qualitative exploratory descriptive approach to investigate male victims of female-perpetrated domestic violence in India, especially Gwalior - Chambal Division, Madhya Pradesh. Semistructured interviews were utilized to gather data from 33 married males in the Gwalior Chambal division, which was subsequently analysed using an interpretive phenomenological approach. There were 5 themes identified: 1. the causes of domestic assault against men; 2. the different types of domestic abuse against men; 3. the consequences of domestic abuse against men; 4. men's ideas of reducing or stopping abuse by their husbands; and 5. the characteristics of abusive wives. Participants experienced varying degrees of mental, behavioural, and verbal harm, coercive control, emotional neglect, and physical assault, all of which had an impact on them and their families. Abusive women used a number of techniques to justify their behaviour, including sex, children, solitude, and money. Furthermore, individuals were persuaded to divorce, stay in an abusive relationship, or use violence against their wives by clan and traditional values, society
institutions, and norms. The top causes for male violence were wives' disregard of the house, children, appearance, and personal hygiene; squandering money; wives' family meddling in the couple's private marital relationships; the wife's betrayal; and traditional thinking. New perspectives on domestic violence must be developed in India to help us better understand the nature of abuse against men, provide resources and assistance to them, reduce the prevalence of domestic abuse, and protect Indian married males.