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dc.titleHow Safe Are Caribbean Homes for Women and Children?: Attitudes toward Intimate Partner Violence and Corporal Punishment
dc.contributor.authorSutton, Heather
dc.contributor.authorÁlvarez, Lucciana
dc.contributor.orgunitCountry Department Caribbean Group
dc.coverageTrinidad and Tobago
dc.coverageSuriname
dc.coverageJamaica
dc.coverageGuyana
dc.coverageBahamas
dc.coverageBarbados
dc.coverageThe Caribbean
dc.date.available2016-12-09T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2016-12-09T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractThis policy brief uses data from the 2014/2015 Latin American Public Opinion Project survey to examine attitudes toward intimate partner violence and child physical discipline in six Caribbean countries. Although Latin America has a reputation for a particularly macho culture, Caribbean adults were 10.8 percent more likely to tolerate a man beating his wife if she neglects the household chores and 5.7 percent more likely to if she is unfaithful. Characteristics of those who were more tolerant of intimate partner violence included being lower income, younger, resident of a rural area, and not completing secondary education. Similarly, those who say it is necessary to physically punish children in the Caribbean - and those who experienced physical punishment frequently themselves - were more prevalent than in Latin American countries. Experiencing frequent physical punishment during childhood was found to be a statistically significant correlate of male tolerance of intimate partner violence after controlling for other individual characteristics. Policy options to prevent intimate partner violence and childhood violence are examined.
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dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0008461
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/How-Safe-Are-Caribbean-Homes-for-Women-and-Children-Attitudes-toward-Intimate-Partner-Violence-and-Corporal-Punishment.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectViolence Against Women
dc.subjectIntimate Partner Violence
dc.subjectChild Abuse
dc.subjectSexual Violence
dc.subjectDomestic Violence
dc.subject.jelcodeI39 - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Other
dc.subject.jelcodeJ12 - Marriage • Marital Dissolution • Family Structure • Domestic Abuse
dc.subject.jelcodeO54 - Latin America • Caribbean
dc.subject.jelcodeY80 - Related Disciplines
dc.subject.keywordschild abuse;sexual violence;violence against women
dc.typePolicy Briefs
idb.identifier.pubnumberPolicy Briefs
idb.operationRG-P1670
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