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Naved, Ruchira Tabassum; Persson, Lars Ake – Journal of Family Issues, 2010
This article explores whether payment issues or presence of dowry demand in marriage reflecting patriarchal attitude of marital family underlies the positive relationship between dowry and wife abuse using a sample of reproductive-age women (N = 2,702) from a population-based survey conducted in urban and rural Bangladesh in 2001. Regression…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Females, Marriage, Foreign Countries
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Johnson, Kiersten Blair; Das, Maitreyi Bordia – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2009
To study risk factors for perpetration of spousal violence among men in Bangladesh, self-reported Demographic and Health Surveys data from 2,780 married men using bivariate and multivariate techniques are analyzed. Of the respondents, 74% report having ever been violent toward their wives; 37% report violence in the past year. Nonnormative…
Descriptors: Spouses, Family Violence, Risk, Foreign Countries
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Rani, Manju; Bonu, Sekhar – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2009
Using demographic and health surveys conducted between 1998 and 2001 from seven countries (Armenia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Kazakhstan, Nepal, and Turkey), the study found that acceptance of wife beating ranged from 29% in Nepal, to 57% in India (women only), and from 26% in Kazakhstan, to 56% in Turkey (men only). Increasing wealth predicted…
Descriptors: Spouses, Family Violence, Employed Women, Foreign Countries