The relationship between socio-economic status and religious attitude of parents with child exposure to domestic violence in Kabul city

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between socio-economic status and parents' religious attitudes toward child exposure to domestic violence in Kabul in the academic year 98-97.The statistical population of the study consisted of 275736 elementary school students in Kabul city. Based on Morgan-Krejcie table, 384 students and parents out of 13 schools were selected by cluster sampling method and Power Socioeconomic Status Scale, Khodayari Fard and Associates Religious Attitude Scale. And the child exposure scale to domestic violence were used by Adelson et al. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression. These results indicated that there is a significant relationship between socioeconomic status and parents' religious attitudes with domestic violence and socioeconomic status variable has a positive role in predicting domestic violence against children. Also,parents' religious attitude variable has a negative role in predicting domestic violence against children. This means that by improving the socio-economic status of the family, violence against children increases and by increasing the religious attitude of parents, the rate of domestic violence against children decreases. Suggestions include identifying these children through education and the use of social workers, educating parents and teachers about the effects of violence on children, and teaching life skills and self-care to children at risk.