Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
Notice (8): Undefined variable: urlPrefix [APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8]latest-news-updates/wife-beating-justified-feel-most-indian-women-14761.html"/> LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Wife beating justified, feel most Indian women | Im4change.org
Resource centre on India's rural distress
 
 

Wife beating justified, feel most Indian women

-CNN-IBN

A Unicef report titled Progress for Children, a report on adolescents, holds that available data for developing countries (India included) show that nearly 50 per cent of girls and women aged between 15 and 49 also believe that wife-beating is justified under certain circumstances. About 57 per cent of male adolescents aged between 15 and 19 years in India think that a husband is justified in hitting or beating his wife under certain circumstances.

Countries with available data where prevalence of supportive attitudes among male adolescents towards wife-beating is 50 per cent or higher include the likes of Samoa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Zambia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan, countries with lesser means than India and with much less per capita allocation on development sectors.

"Societal attitudes that convey acceptance or justification of domestic violence may make girls and women more vulnerable to becoming victims," the report said.

However, India fares well in terms of adolescents becoming victims of violence or homicide. In those categories, the Central and Latin American countries like El Salvador, Colombia, Brazil and Venezuela rule the roost.