Objective: The incindence of wife abuse and its impacts on psychological as well as physical health of the women and in its ultimate negative effects on the health of the family have been presented in many researches. The purpose of the present study was to investigate physical and psychological wife abuse among the married women living in Tehran.

Materials & Methods: Study sample (N=1000) consisted of two group of married women (18-45 years): those who did not refere to domestic curts (n= 800), and those who had problem with their husbands and therefore refered to domestic curts (n=200). Moffir et al. (15) Questionnaire has been applied.

Results: Data analysis revealed that: psychological and physical wife abuse among subjects in the first group were 87/9 and 47/9 respectively. Psychological and physical wife abuse among subjects in the second group were 99/5 and 91 respectively. Wife abuse was significantly related to the age of the couples and duration of their marriage the older the couples and the longer the marriage, the higher the wife abuse. There was a significant negative relationship between education of the couples and wife abuse. The higher the education, the lesser the wife abuse. Those husbands who consumed alcohol or drug, abused their wives significantly more than those husbands who did not consume alcohol or drug. Husbands with psychological problems abused their wives significantly more than husbands without psychological problems. Psychological and physical wife abuse among the subjects in the second group were higher than psychological and physical wife abuse among the subjects in the first group.

Conclusion: Our findings suggested that there are relationships among the variables of age, education, alcohol or drug consumption, husbands psychological disorders and wife abuse. Legislation of a low wich forbids husbands to abuse their wives and increament of the general knowledge about wife abuse by means of mass media may have significant effects on reduction of wife abuse.

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare child abuse between normal children and children with learning disorder, aged 7-12 in Tehran city.

Materials & Methods: This analytical and cross sectional study is a research in causative-comparative method. 120 normal children of primary school from districts 3.7 and 15 of Tehran education and 120 children with learning disorder from three center of primary school students with learning disorder (1.2 and 3) were selected by multistage cluster sampaling method and evaluated by Reliable Child Abuse Questionnaire. Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient Friedman rank test and Paired T and independent T tests.

Results: In children view, there were signifivant differences in mean scores of affective abuse (p<0.001) and total score of child abuse (p=0.002) between two groups. Likewise in parent's view. there were significant differences in mean scores of affective abuse (p<0.001), physical abuse (p<0.011) and total score of child abuse (p<0.001) between two groups. Also, there were significant differences between the ideas of children and their parents about physical abuse (p<0.002), sexual abuse (p<0.001) and ignorance (p<0.001)

Conclusion: The tindings reveal that there is a difference between normal chidren and children with learning disorder in the extent of child abuse regarding it's type and in comparison with previous researches, affective abuse is more than other abuse types. So. it is necessary for mental health professionals to provide programs for training parents in future.