Parental Influence on Domestic Violence

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illustrates how, more than society, the family, as the most immediate contact and influence of the individual, becomes the primary source of influence for tolerating and perpetuating violent behavior against women (particularly wives), thus resulting to the prevalence of domestic violence in the country.
Looking at the variables, statistical tests and analysis used, and findings arrived at in the study, this study brings into lucidity how the phenomenon and social issue of domestic violence operates at the micro-level-that is, devoid of external influences such as social norms in the society, the researchers sought to determine why domestic violence is still perpetuated and practiced. Thus, through survey interviews, the researchers has drawn out a sample of 6,902 Indian males from 400 villages and towns, from the districts, Aligarth, Banda, Gonda, Kanpur Nagar, and Natnital, all belonging to the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The sample was selected using the ...

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