Family Violence Practices between Rural Women in Some Villages in Alexandria and Behera GovernoratesA Comparison Study

This research aimed mainly to compare family violence practices between rural women in some villages in Alexandria and Behera Governorates. The study was carried out through achieving the following sub-goals: 1- Assess some characteristics of respondents. 2- Define family violence level of the respondents. 3- Assess differences between medium degrees of family violence level in both governorates study. 4- Study correlations between some independent variables and family violence level of the respondents. Data were collected by questionnaire through personal interview with random sample consisted of 200 respondents. Person correlation, spearman correlation, T-test frequencies and percentages were used in data analysis. Data indicated the following result: 1- 40% of respondents have high violence family level, 58% of respondents have medium violence family level, and 2% only of respondents have low violence family level. 2- There were significant relations between respondents age, respondent work, respondents arise place, husband arise place, husband work, beating wife’s habit and decision making degree and violence family level. 3- There were significant deference in medium degrees of family violence level in both governorates study.