Attitudes and Prejudices of Roma Women from Isolated Roma Settlements in Me?imurje County about Violence Against Women in the Family

The subject of the research is the attitudes and prejudices of Roma women about violence against women in the Roma family. The research was a cross-sectional study at a single point in time (spring 2020) using a survey method, conducted on a proportional, stratified sample of 350 Roma women from 12 Roma settle-ments in Medimurje County. The research was carried out as a one-time sur-vey according to the so-called drawing a >> cross-section at one point in time << (spring 2020) using the survey method, and on a proportional, stratified sample of 350 Roma women from 12 Roma settlements in Medimurje County. Roma households were selected using the >> random walk method << and the interviewee was selected using the >> first birthday method <<. The research showed a high level of acceptance of prejudices about violence against women in the family, including the acceptance of attitudes about a man's right to use violence against a woman under numerous circumstances, further about the woman's guilt as a victim for the violence experienced, then about the minimization of the mean-ing of violence and the relativization of the abuser's responsibility for what has been done violence, and the acceptance of prejudices about the way to prevent violence, and all of the above expressed through the total recorded average value of the level of acceptance according to all 40 stated statements on a scale from 1 to 5. The research also confirmed a significant positive association of accep-tance of prejudice with all observed socio-demographic factors, so that younger Roma women, Roma women who entered into a traditional Roma marriage at a younger age before reaching adulthood, were significantly more inclined to accept such attitudes, then Roma women with a very low level of education, Roma women without completing primary school, unemployed Roma women, and Roma women who gave birth to their first child before the age of 16, as well as those Roma women who have more than 4 children in their care.