Social interaction pattern to increase family awareness about domestic violence

Abstract

Currently, households find many cases of physical violence, economic violence, psychological violence, and sexual violence perpetrated by the closest people such as uncles, grandfathers, spouses, parents, and even biological children who should protect their families. The family is an interdependent system, which has two characteristics, membership and interaction with other members because family members as informal teachers have become obligatory to set good examples, guide, nurture well, and invite them to interact so the behavior of family members reflects the awareness not to commit violence in the household and can be implemented in family and community life. This research aims to benefit from the importance of social interaction carried out in the family to inspire family awareness about domestic violence. Social interactions that reflect family awareness about domestic violence are social interactions in the form of cooperation, accommodation, and assimilation. This research is a case study with a qualitative approach; the sampling technique used is snowball sampling. The results showed that household in Tanjung Bulan village does not experience or commit the domestic violence whose families who carried out associative forms of interaction, namely cooperation, accommodation, and assimilation. This finding declares that social interaction among the family members plays crucial role to live harmoniously.