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High rates of violence against women and girls are one of the most pressing issues facing both developed and developing countries today. The WHO estimates that a third of women across the world have experienced intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime. The hazardous and regular drinkers continue their addiction despite any fluctuations on tax or purchasing power, the implications being lesser and lesser food available at home, making them increasingly vulnerable to fall under the debt trap or chronic poverty. On the other side, women and children also face the dark consequence of such addiction-alcohol abuse. The book thus focuses women of households bearing alcoholic people for preliminary understanding of the problem, issues and the consequential impacts of such addictions both socially and physically. This book identified and analyzed the reasons, process and the impact of alcoholism on social environment also this book helps to understand the severity and impact of alcoholism on women and especially on the families affected by alcoholism. This book will helpful to the researchers, students and policy maker in the field of Social Science.

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Jare, Ramesh
Dr. Ramesh Jare is an Associate Professor in Tata Institute of Social Science, Rural Development, Tuljapur, Maharshtra, India & Vilas Balgaonkar is an Assistant Professor in the Hirachand Nemchand College of Commerce, University of Solapur and Research Scholar at Tata Institute of Social Science.

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