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...

Participants (N = 126) read one of four scenarios depicting an incident of child physical abuse inflicted by the father. Scenarios varied history of wife abuse (present vs. absent) and severity of child abuse (battering vs. death). Overall, the father was held highly responsible. Greater maternal culpability was assigned when a history of wife abuse was present. The degree to which the mother s...

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The 20C embraced Restoration comedy as the quintessence of comedy of manners and adored The Country Wife as one of the most brilliantly glittering example of the genre. The definition of that genre, however, arose in the current era, and it has distorted our perspective on this comedy. We must consider the 17C dramatic meaning of manners in order to understand the characters’ back stories, moti...

Slap Shot’s Lily Braden is the origin of what I term “willful wife.” The wife” a unique character hockey film genre as she appears in nearly every popular post-Slap Shot but incredibly rare other sports films. define willful wife girlfriend/wife an athlete, literature or film, who unhappy with her partner’s devotion to sport, and so demands that he be more attentive boyfriend/husband and/or fat...

An experimental study of perceptions about gay, lesbian, and heterosexual domestic violence in Sweden. Undergraduate students (N = 1009) read one of eight fictitious scenarios of domestic violence in married couple relationships, where sexual orientation, sex of victim and batterer, and severity of violence were varied. Perceptions of seriousness of the described incident and attitudes toward w...

In this paper we study the problem of data exchange and query answering in the presence of arithmetic comparisons (ACs). The contributions of this work are the following: a) we extend the work in [FKMP03] by assuming source-to-target constraints, target constraints and queries to include ACs, b) we give an algebraic specification to compute a universal solution using a variant of the chase proc...

Previous efforts by demographers to describe and explain spousal differences in reporting about family planning behavior have focused on individual attributes that are assumed to be related to the practice of contraception. This study extends that research by documenting spousal disagreement on a range of issues--household items, livestock, children, and spousal communication about fertility, f...

benefits in 1953 ___. lion, private carriers were responsible for 62 percent, State funds for 25 percent, and self-insurers for 13 percent. Total State fund disbursements, including payments to Federal Government employees, again increased at a slightly faster rate than private carrier payments-5.6 percent and 4.4 percent, respectively. The unevenness in the rate of increase from State to State...