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- Title
Domestic Violence Against Married Women in Cambodia.
- Authors
Yount, Kathryn M.; Carrera, Jennifer S.
- Abstract
We evaluate the effects of marital resources and early-life experiences on recent domestic violence and attitudes about wife abuse among 2,074 married Cambodian women. Household standard of living was negatively associated with physical domestic violence. Women with 8-13 fewer years of schooling than their husbands more often experienced physical and psychological domestic violence. Women with more living children more often experienced physical domestic violence and justified wife beating. Having surviving parents and siblings was not associated with domestic violence nor with attitudes about wife beating. Women reporting higher paternal schooling, urban childhood residence and domestic violence against their mothers had higher odds of experiencing physical and psychological domestic violence. Findings underscore the effects of marital resources and early-life experiences on domestic violence in Cambodia.
- Subjects
CAMBODIA; MARRIED people; DOMESTIC violence; ABUSE of women; WOMEN'S education; LIFE change events; CAMBODIANS
- Publication
Social Forces, 2006, Vol 85, Issue 1, p355
- ISSN
0037-7732
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/sof.2006.0151