Over the centuries, Saudi Arabia, the land of several prophets, and the birthplace of Islam and Arabic civilizations, has developed protective mechanisms for the weak and the vulnerable. Each system and society has built-in protective mechanisms as well as risk factors. Saudi Arabia, as an Islamic and Arabic culture, has been dealing with ways to counter family maltreatment for centuries. The problem has been viewed within a larger context of moral and spiritual development. National statistics regarding the extent of domestic violence are limited for many reasons: the relative recency of professional and community attention to these issues, the relatively small numbers of professionals working in these areas, and the cultural valuing of family and national privacy. In this chapter, Saudi participants' perspectives on child, spousal, and elder abuse supplement data on the prevalence and nature of these forms of family violence in Saudi ArabiThe Saudi Arabian macrosystem and family microsystem are also described.