INDIA - MOTHER-IN-LAW CAN
BE FACTOR IN FAMILY PLANNING DECISIONS, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
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India
- Daughters-in-Law Encouraged to Speak Up
September 5, 2013 - A mother-in-law often
dictates family planning decisions for the younger women in her household. Some
health reformers are trying to change that dynamic through counseling efforts
and discussion groups.
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INDIA
INTERGENERATIONAL WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT
INTERVENTION
TO MITIGATE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Pilot
Study - Bengaluru, India
Direct Link to Full 2012 Study:
Vera-Sanso, 1999). In a study of women in a
postnatal ward at a hospital in New Delhi, 40% of 168 women who reported
experiencing some form of abuse during pregnancy noted that their MIL was the
perpetrator (Muthal-Rathore et al., 2002).
Given
the importance of childbearing in the early years of marriage, and given the
increasing utilization of antenatal care by women, especially in urban India,
we developed an antenatal care–based program. The aim of our
intervention was to empower daughter-in-laws and
their mothers-in-law with knowledge, skills, and social support
critical to the mitigation of young women’s experiences of domestic violence.
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A growing body of literature has documented the global prevalence of
domestic violence against women of reproductive age as well as the association
between violence and an array of adverse reproductive, psychosocial, and child
health outcomes . However, there is a dearth of research on domestic violence
prevention interventions in the peer-reviewed literature to guide program
planning and policy-making efforts. In this article, the authors describe the
development and assessment of the feasibility, acceptability, and potential
effectiveness of an intergenerational women’s empowerment-based intervention to
mitigate domestic violence and related adverse health outcomes in low-income
urban communities in Southern India.
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