BACKGROUND Wife beating is an important public health problem in many developing countries. We assessed the rates of wife beating and examined factors associated with wife beating in 1995 and 2005 in Egypt. METHODS We used data from two Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) conducted in Egypt in 1995 and 2005 using multistage household sampling. Data related to wife beating included informatio...

The social files and medical records of 98 acutely battered wives who attended a surgical emergency department were studied. Although all women had been hospitalized during the decade preceding the present incident, wife battering was documented in the records in only 18%. The majority of the women (73%) were also known to the social services, but battering was documented in less than half of t...

In a world where images of picture-perfect celebrities are plastered everywhere, it can be alarmingly easy to fall into a movie star crush. But it sounds like you?re worried that your wife?s crush may be getting out of hand ? or, at the very least, is seriously straining your marriage. It?s not unusual to feel hurt, jealous, or confused if your partner is pining over some hot-shot with (movie) ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relative importance of wife abuse as a risk factor for physical child abuse, physical punishment, and verbal child abuse. The study explored the importance of wife abuse relative to blocks of parent, child, and family characteristics and also relative to specific risk factors. METHOD This study re-analyzed a sub-sample (N = 2,733) of data from the 1985 National Fa...

according to the islamic criminal law, consent from the patient or their legal guardian is necessary for any clinical or surgical operation. currently, hospitals get consent from the husband for clinical operations of his wife and if they could not get the consent they refuse to do the operation. in this paper, legal and religious basis for this type of consent (husband for wife) is discussed u...