Domestic Violence vs. Future of the Children Case Study in the Eravur Pattu Divisional Secretariat Division, Batticaloa District, Sri Lanka

Abstract

Domestic violence in Sri Lanka plays a vital role in Gender Based Violence. The degree of such violence differs from place to place and house to house. Many parents, especially the mothers, who mainly reside at Sittandy, Mavadivembu, and Vantharumoolai at the Eravur Pattu Divisional Secretariat Division, Batticaloa District have migrated to Middle East countries for work due to such violence. Parents and their children’s future become questionable though their parents are virtually living. The women who migrate to any foreign country are doubly oppressed; both physically in their working places and mentally – thinking their own future and their children to whom they are migrated. The children of such migratory parents face many difficulties and their future also becomes questionable as that of their mothers. Objectives of this particular study is to check how far these children are affected due to the domestic violence that their parents are involved in and if there are any, then do the children used to cope up with. Children of these conditions may face many challenges like mental and physical harassment, lack of necessary psychosocial well being and these things can be happen at every place where they are involve in. Now these target villages were selected due to the recent increasing rate of reported cases on domestic violence. The research was conducted on mixed method, by organizing personal interviews of the victimized children along with their parents and informations of the relevant family status were collected through higher authority of District Child Protection Unit (DCPU) of the Batticaloa District. Based on the analysis, this research reveals that domestic violence forces children to become orphans due to the migration of parents, especially loss the mothers.