A Sociological Study on the Effects of Irregularity in Family on Domestic Violence of Women against Men

Domestic violence is one of the important social pathologies that continually manifest despite intellectual and cultural progresses in the society. Among the various kinds of domestic violence; less attention has been paid to women's violence against men. The aim of this research is to sociologically analyze the effect of irregularity in the family level on women's domestic violence against men. This is a survey study and its measurement tool is a researcher-made questionnaire. The statistical population includes the whole married men in Babolsar city. The statistical sample volume was 384 persons based on Cochran formula. Information was gathered by a questionnaire and through multistagecluster sampling. The results showed that the underlying variables of age, the wife's age, marriage duration, the number of children, the number of woman's marriage and the way of choosing husband has a significant relationship with violence against men. Also the major variables of research (lack of joint consultation, lack of common synchronization, lack of common well-being and lack of common empathy) have direct effect on violence against men. Also considering to structural model (MIMIC) provided, all these variables could explain 33% of alteration of dependent variable, i.e. women's violence against men.