2.4 How Violence In the Home Affects Women

Most of the literature available in Cambodia limited itself to women as the victims of male violence. National statistics indicated that roughly one in four women suffered from violence in the home at some point in their lives and some 80% of women acknowledged that they knew of at least one family in which the husband was physically violent toward the wife (Lim 2006:2). Additionally, a 1996 survey found that 10% of men reported having been physically violent to the wife (Nelson & Zimmerman 1996: vii).