Domestic violence is a pandemic and estimated to affect
one in three women globally, in their lifetime. Marriages
within blood relations in Pakistan are common. In this
study a secondary analysis of Pakistan Demographic and
Health Survey 2012-13 was done to study the prevalence
and profile of domestic violence in the context of
consanguineous marriages in Pakistan. Almost 65% of
women had some kind of blood relationship with their
husbands. Women having a blood relationship with
husbands were more likely to report having ever been
subjected to marital control behaviours, emotional and
physical violence by their husbands, compared to ones
withoutsuch relationship. However, these associationsfail
to reach statistical significance; underscoring the
ubiquitous nature of marital control and violence. More
effective public health education campaigns for just and
equal treatment of wives by their husbands to speedily
curb the scourge of domestic violence in the country are
needed.