Domestic violence across generations: findings from northern India
Domestic violence across generations: findings from northern India
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DOI：
10.1093/ije/31.3.560
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发表时间：
2002-06-01
影响因子：
7.7
通讯作者：
Campbell, JC
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作者：
Martin, SL;Moracco, KE;Campbell, JC
背景虽然不能低估宏观系统层面的力量（如文化和社会规范）在任何国家（包括印度）基于性别的暴力的病因学中的重要性，但个人层面的变量（如在成长过程中观察父母之间的暴力行为）也可能在这种暴力的发展中发挥重要作用。因此，这项研究对居住在印度北方的男子进行了研究，目的是：（1）估计男子在童年时目睹其原籍家庭中父母之间暴力的普遍性;（2）研究在暴力家庭中长大的男子是否比在非暴力家庭中长大的男子更有可能持有支持丈夫控制妻子的态度;（3）研究在暴力家庭中长大的男性是否比在非暴力家庭中长大的男性更有可能虐待自己的妻子;及（4）估计如果没有父母对子女的虐待，第二代虐待妻子的情况本可以在多大程度上得到防止。男性纳塔尔家庭中的父母暴力（n = 6902）的调查涉及：他们的童年经历目睹父母对父母的暴力在其原籍家庭;他们的态度，丈夫的控制，他们的妻子的适当性;他们对自己的妻子的身体和性虐待行为;和社会人口变量。描述性统计，多变量建模程序，估计人口归因分数被用来解决研究questions.Results大约三分之一的男性目睹了父母对父母的暴力作为一个孩子。与在非暴力家庭中长大的男性相比，来自暴力家庭的男性更有可能相信丈夫有权控制妻子，并对自己的妻子进行身体/性虐待。上一代的非暴力强烈预示着第二代的非暴力，第二代中约有三分之一的妻子虐待可归因于第一代中的父母对父母的暴力。结论这些来自印度北方的发现与来自其他地理区域的结果一致。在这方面，我们认为，在成长过程中目睹父母之间的暴力行为是成年后实施伴侣暴力行为的一个重要风险因素。
Background Although one cannot underestimate the importance of macrosystem-level forces (such as cultural and social norms) in the aetiology of gender-based violence within any country, including India, individual-level variables (such as observing violence between one's parents while growing up) may also play important roles in the development of such violence. Therefore, this research studies men residing in northern India to: (1) estimate the prevalence of men's childhood experiences of witnessing parent-to-parent violence within their families of origin; (2) examine whether men raised in violent homes were more likely than men raised in non-violent homes to have attitudes supportive of husbands' control of their wives; (3) examine whether men raised in violent homes were more likely than men raised in non-violent homes to be abusive toward their own wives; and (4) estimate the extent to which wife abuse in this second generation could have been prevented had there not been parent-to-parent violence in the men's natal families.Methods Married men (n = 6902) were surveyed concerning: their childhood experiences of witnessing parent-to-parent violence in their families of origin; their attitudes regarding the appropriateness of husbands' control of their wives; their physically and sexually abusive behaviours toward their own wives; and sociodemographic variables. Descriptive statistics, multivariable modelling procedures, and estimation of a population attributable fraction were used to address the study questions.Results Approximately one-third of the men had witnessed parent-to-parent violence as a child. Compared to men raised in non-violent homes, men from violent homes were significantly more likely to believe in husbands' rights to control their wives, and to be physically/sexually abusive toward their own wives. Non-violence in the earlier generation was strongly predictive of non-violence in the second generation, with about a third of the wife abuse in the second generation being attributable to parent-to-parent violence in the first generation.Conclusions These findings from northern India are congruent with those from other geographical/cultural settings in suggesting that witnessing violence between one's parents while growing up is an important risk factor for the perpetration of partner violence in adulthood.