Out of these around fifty per cent were battered even when they were in a family way. Something surprising about domestic violence is that the battering husbands do not feel any guilt or sorrow over it. On the contrary, they think that battering a wife is just some thing normal, or even desirable. Some even go to the extent of saying that a dose of beating administered to a woman from time to time keeps per disciplined, obedient and subservient. Some have even the cheek to say that the women themselves invite beating since they consider that a husband who beats his wife is the one who loves her the most.
Domestic violence is more prevalent in lower and upper middle classes than in the poor families.
In the case of the latter, it could be due to women working side by side with their men folks on petty jobs or as daily wage earners in dwelling-construction industry or on road building jobs and so on, and contributing to the family kitty. Domestic violence is more common with women who live out their lives at home, bearing children and bringing them up, children in addition to cooking, washing, cleaning and so on. As far as the attitude of the society is concerned, the less said about it the better. As already said, whenever a husband batters a wife in public or in private, no one raises any protest or condemnation against it. In fact, in such cases most persons blame the victim for having invited battering by the husband for one reason or the other like constant nagging, not obeying blindly whatever she is ordered to by the husband or in-laws and so on.