WIFE LEFT BEHIND: PERCEPTION OF BURDENED WIFE
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https://doi.org/10.62533/jrrggf98Keywords:
Wife left behind, Perception, Burdened Wife, Domestics Chores, Children education, Sexual harassmentAbstract
The wife (left behind) has been burdened with problems such as running the home, bringing up children, looking after their education and carrying out socio-cultural responsibilities of close and distant relatives like attending a wedding ceremony, funeral ceremony and other social gatherings. Hence, the study aims at digging out the nature and magnitude of problems being faced by the wife left behind. It was a qualitative research approach in which exploratory design was used. For this research, judgmental sampling has been used to conduct three FGDs and 10 IDIs with respondents (wives left behind) of different areas of Distract Khanewal in Punjab, Pakistan. The results reveal the husband’s absence has burdened wife with problems like, handling children, children’s poor performance at school, performing domestic chores, maintaining relationship with close and distant relatives and importantly wife empowerment at home. The results also highlight unfair interference of in-laws, unequal distribution of domestic chores, handling children’s problems, sexual harassment and deteriorating physical and mental health of wife.
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