Different predictors of intimate partner and natal family violence against women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Violence against women is often studied in the context of violence from intimate partners. However, women receive violence from a wider range of individuals-such as their natal kin-including their siblings, parents, uncles and cousins. Applying insights from evolutionary theory, we examine whether cousin marriage, which has been hypothesized to both reduce the risk of partner violence but increase the risk of natal family violence, associates differently with each type of violence. Second, we test whether common risk factors for partner violence, such as wealth, associate similarly with natal violence.

Methodology

We analyse over 16 000 Jordanian women from three cohorts of the Jordan Demographic Health Surveys. Predictor variables include type of cousin marriage

SUBMITTER: Campbell OLK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9154062 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature