Husband’s alcohol use, intimate partner violence, and family maltreatment of low-income postpartum women in Mumbai, India
Document Type
Article (peer-reviewed)
Publication Date
7-1-2018
Abstract
Husbands’ alcohol use has been associated with family-level stress and intimate partner violence (IPV) against women in India. Joint family systems are common in India and IPV often co-occurs with non-violent family maltreatment of wives (e.g., nutritional deprivation, deprivation of sleep, blocking access to health care). Alcohol use increases for some parents following the birth of a child. This study examined 1,038 postpartum women’s reports of their husbands’ alcohol use and their own experiences of IPV (by husband) and non-violent maltreatment from husbands and/or in-laws. We analyzed cross-sectional, quantitative data collected in 2008, from women (ages 15-35) seeking immunizations for their infants
Recommended Citation
Wagman, Jennifer A., Donta Balaiah, Julie Ritter, Dattaram D. Naik, Saritha Nair, Niranjan Saggurti, Anita Raj, and Jay G. Silverman. 2018. "Husband’s alcohol use, intimate partner violence, and family maltreatment of low-income postpartum women in Mumbai, India," Journal of Interpersonal Violence 33(14): 2241–2267.
DOI
10.1177/0886260515624235
Language
English