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Abstract
The sustainable development and the role of women in nation building is vital. Swami Vivekananda said "that country and that nation which did not respect women has never become great nor will ever in future".' Women undergo numerous challenges in respect of socio, economic, cultural, psyche, political, religious and so on. All these barriers hinder their sustainable development at various levels in different places of society in our country. It seems that home is the best place from where sustainable development should take place. 'Well begun half done', life is commenced at one's own domicile. Then, the first urgent urge would be the eradication of the challenges in the family and then creating sustainable development therein. Family is the unit on which the society is built Family is the cornerstone of society. The challenges women have in families are elaborately dealt in this paper, in the perspective of "Domestic Violence". The statistics of women's domestic violence at Coimbatore District highlights and limits the place, time and theme of this paper.