Abstract:
To study the public's attitude toward the problem of child abuse in family and the public's opinion on helping the abused children. Finally the purpose of this thesis was to learn about obstracles in getting help to those children who were abused. The data was collected randomly by asking 200 people in Patumwan district to fill out a questionnaire and by interviewing 5 key informants in order to get the most conclusive data for the analysis. For the hypothesis testing, the t-test with the level of significance at 0.05 was employed. The statistical models that had been used in this test were frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. The result of research were age, marital status, number of children, occupation and monthly income had relationship with attitude toward the problem of child abuse in family. However, gender and educational level did not have relationship with attitude toward the problem of child abuse in family.