The Marital Implications of Bereavement: Child Death and Intimate Partner Violence in West and Central Africa.

ABSTRACT: In high-mortality contexts, research examining the effects of child mortality has focused almost exclusively on couples' fertility responses while overlooking other potential family consequences. Using nationally representative survey data from 13 West and Central African countries, we estimate multilevel discrete-time hazard models to determine how women's risk of intimate partner violence (IPV) varies with the death of children. We assess heterogeneity in this association across two surrounding circumstances: children's age at death and regional prevalence of child bereavement. Findings indicate that the risk of IPV initiation rises with the death of children under age 5-for whom women are most intensely responsible-but not with the death of older children. The effect of young child bere

SUBMITTER: Weitzman A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10704395 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature