Justification of Wife Beating in Rural Bangladesh

Wife beating: the silent crime.

Wife beating refusal among women of reproductive age in urban and rural Ethiopia

BACKGROUND Wife beating is the most common and widespread form of intimate partner violence in Ethiopia. It results in countless severe health, socio-economic and psychological problems and has contributed to the violation of human rights including the liberty of women to enjoy conjugal life. The main purpose of this study is to assess the levels and patterns of wife beating refusal and its ass...

Wife-beating in rural south India: a qualitative and econometric analysis.

This paper uses ethnographic and econometric methods to study the determinants of wife abuse in a community of potters in Southern India. The qualitative work demonstrates that wife abuse is more likely when dowries are perceived as inadequate, when husbands are alcoholic, and when the cause of the abuse is perceived as "legitimate" by the community. Hypotheses generated from the qualitative wo...

Understanding women's attitudes towards wife beating in Zimbabwe.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the factors associated with attitudes towards wife beating among women in partnerships in Zimbabwe in order to assist public health practitioners in preventing intimate partner violence (IPV). METHODS A nationally representative survey of 5907 women of reproductive age (15-49 years) was conducted in Zimbabwe. Women were asked about their attitudes towards wife beating...

Predicting Population for Male of Rural Area in Bangladesh

 In this paper the population for male of rural area in Bangladesh is predicted by using the geometric growth rate method. The predictions are computed in a three-step procedure. In the first step, the prediction are computed using an exponentail model estimated by Quasi-Newton method for the years 1974, 1981, 1991, and 2001 using the package STATISTICA. Using the cross-validation predicti...