Men's and women's views on acceptability of husband-to-wife violence and use of corporal punishment with children in 21 low- and middle-income countries
Background Monitoring violence against women and children, and understanding risk factors and consequences of such violence, are key parts of the action plan for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. Objective We examined how men’s and wome...
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| author | Lansford, Jennifer E. Zietz, Susannah Putnick, Diane L. Deater-Deckard, Kirby Bradley, Robert H. Costa, Megan Esposito, Gianluca Bornstein, Marc H. |
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| author_facet | School of Social Sciences Lansford, Jennifer E. Zietz, Susannah Putnick, Diane L. Deater-Deckard, Kirby Bradley, Robert H. Costa, Megan Esposito, Gianluca Bornstein, Marc H. |
| author_sort | Lansford, Jennifer E. |
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| description | Background
Monitoring violence against women and children, and understanding risk factors and consequences of such violence, are key parts of the action plan for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015.
Objective
We examined how men’s and women’s views about the acceptability of husband-to-wife violence are related within households and how views about the acceptability of husband-to-wife violence are related to beliefs in the necessity of using corporal punishment to rear children and to reported use of corporal punishment with children.
Participants and Setting:We used nationally representative samples of men and women in 37,641 households in 21 low- and middle-income countries that participated in UNICEF’s Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey.
Methods
We conducted a series of logistic regression models, controlling for clustering within country, with outcomes of whether participants believe corporal punishment is necessary in childrearing, and whether a child in their household experienced corporal punishment in the last month.
Results
In 46 % of households, men, women, or both men and women believed husbands are justified in hitting their wives. Children in households in which both men and women believe husbands are justified in hitting their wives had 1.83 times the odds of experiencing corporal punishment as children in households in which neither men nor women believe husbands are justified in hitting their wives (95 % CI: 1.12, 2.97).
Conclusions
Working toward the realization of SDG 5 and SDG 16 involving prevention of violence against women and children, respectively, should be complementary undertakings. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1443962023-03-05T15:34:13Z Men's and women's views on acceptability of husband-to-wife violence and use of corporal punishment with children in 21 low- and middle-income countries Lansford, Jennifer E. Zietz, Susannah Putnick, Diane L. Deater-Deckard, Kirby Bradley, Robert H. Costa, Megan Esposito, Gianluca Bornstein, Marc H. School of Social Sciences Social sciences::Psychology Attitudes Child Abuse Background Monitoring violence against women and children, and understanding risk factors and consequences of such violence, are key parts of the action plan for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. Objective We examined how men’s and women’s views about the acceptability of husband-to-wife violence are related within households and how views about the acceptability of husband-to-wife violence are related to beliefs in the necessity of using corporal punishment to rear children and to reported use of corporal punishment with children. Participants and Setting:We used nationally representative samples of men and women in 37,641 households in 21 low- and middle-income countries that participated in UNICEF’s Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey. Methods We conducted a series of logistic regression models, controlling for clustering within country, with outcomes of whether participants believe corporal punishment is necessary in childrearing, and whether a child in their household experienced corporal punishment in the last month. Results In 46 % of households, men, women, or both men and women believed husbands are justified in hitting their wives. Children in households in which both men and women believe husbands are justified in hitting their wives had 1.83 times the odds of experiencing corporal punishment as children in households in which neither men nor women believe husbands are justified in hitting their wives (95 % CI: 1.12, 2.97). Conclusions Working toward the realization of SDG 5 and SDG 16 involving prevention of violence against women and children, respectively, should be complementary undertakings. Accepted version 2020-11-03T04:49:14Z 2020-11-03T04:49:14Z 2020 Journal Article Lansford, J. E., Zietz, S., Putnick, D. L., Deater-Deckard, K., Bradley, R. H., Costa, M., ... Bornstein, M. H. (2020). Men's and women's views on acceptability of husband-to-wife violence and use of corporal punishment with children in 21 low- and middle-income countries. Child Abuse & Neglect, 108, 104692-. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104692 1873-7757 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144396 10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104692 32841882 108 104692 en Child Abuse & Neglect © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This paper was published in Child Abuse & Neglect and is made available with permission of Elsevier Ltd. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Social sciences::Psychology Attitudes Child Abuse Lansford, Jennifer E. Zietz, Susannah Putnick, Diane L. Deater-Deckard, Kirby Bradley, Robert H. Costa, Megan Esposito, Gianluca Bornstein, Marc H. Men's and women's views on acceptability of husband-to-wife violence and use of corporal punishment with children in 21 low- and middle-income countries |
| title | Men's and women's views on acceptability of husband-to-wife violence and use of corporal punishment with children in 21 low- and middle-income countries |
| title_full | Men's and women's views on acceptability of husband-to-wife violence and use of corporal punishment with children in 21 low- and middle-income countries |
| title_fullStr | Men's and women's views on acceptability of husband-to-wife violence and use of corporal punishment with children in 21 low- and middle-income countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Men's and women's views on acceptability of husband-to-wife violence and use of corporal punishment with children in 21 low- and middle-income countries |
| title_short | Men's and women's views on acceptability of husband-to-wife violence and use of corporal punishment with children in 21 low- and middle-income countries |
| title_sort | men s and women s views on acceptability of husband to wife violence and use of corporal punishment with children in 21 low and middle income countries |
| topic | Social sciences::Psychology Attitudes Child Abuse |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144396 |
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