Women's “Justification” of Domestic Violence in Egypt

Abstract

We explored the influences of women's social learning, marital resources and constraints, and exposure to norms about women's family roles on their views about wife hitting or beating among 5,450 participants in the 2005 Egypt Demographic and Health Survey. One half justified wife hitting or beating for some reason. Women from rural areas who were exposed to domestic violence more often justified such acts. Dependent wives whose husbands had more schooling, were blood relatives, and were coresident more often justified such acts. In settings where women tended to marry at older ages, women less often justified such acts. Women's resources and constraints in marriage accounted for the largest share of the variability in their attitudes about domestic violence against women.Domestic violence refers to ''assaultive and coercive behaviors that adults use against their intimate partners'' (Holden, 2003, p. 155). Accordingly, both men and women may commit domestic violence. Studies (of often purposive samples) in North America and Europe have

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