文档介绍：Child disciplinary actions and women exposure to marital violence in Egypt
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【摘要】 Objective: To investigate the association of women’s exposure to marital violence with their child disciplinary actions in the 2005 EDHS. Methods: A subsample of 5249 currently married women were investigated for ever and the 12 months prior to survey exposure to physical and sexual violence by their current husbands, and its association with their child disciplinary actions specifically hitting or slapping the child on the body and/or the face to address child behavior problem adjusting for the effect of respondents’ age, education, work, residence, wealth index, number of children ever borne, and empowerment in household decisions . Results: Around % and % of the studied women have been ever exposed to physical and sexual violence by their current husbands; of them 60% and % have been subjected to it the 12 months prior to the survey respectively. Around 7
0% of women were slapping or hitting their children aged 317 years on their body or face as an action to address behavior problems the month prior to the survey. Around 40 % of women were slapping their children on face, head, or ears. Logistic regression models showed that exposure to marital violence predicted hitting or slapping the child on the body and/or the face to address behavior problems the month prior to the survey adjusted to other : Marital Violence is significantly associated with child maltreatment. The study highlights the need for effective screening and identification of marital violence in families in which child maltreatment has occurred and vice versa.
【关键词】 VAW; slapping or hitting; child; maltreatment; 2005 EFHS
INTRODUCTION
Data in the1995 EDHS showed that 34% of currently married women were ever beaten by their current husband while 16% were beaten in the year prior to the survey. Higher frequency of beating was ass