A new study says that physical abuse and ill treatment by in-laws during and after pregnancy is a common occurrence in India.
Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) researcher Anita Raj and her team, found that more than one in four women in the low-income strata reported violence or other forms of maltreatment from in-laws during pregnancy or after giving birth.
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Abuse ranged from denial of food during pregnancy to cutting access to medical care.
"These findings have critical implications for perinatal [intimate partner violence] prevention and intervention efforts with South Asian women and in cultural contexts where extended families form an important social unit," the authors wrote.
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While rates of physical abuse were relatively low, 20 percent of women reported that in-laws had insulted them or their families in front of others during their pregnancies.
In one interview included in the study, a 17-year-old Muslim woman says her in-laws "want a boy child, and as you know, I delivered [a] girl child. My sister-in-law has some uterus problems, so she is unable to conceive a child. Now my in-laws want me to deliver another child [a boy] and give the girl to my sister-in-law."
The study brings to fore the need to screen family abuse and indicate that screening for in-law abuse also will likely improve the detection of abuse by husbands.
The study is published in the Maternal and Child Health Journal.
Source: ANI
AIDS and Pregnancy
The Acquired immune deficiency syndrome is brought about by the deadly human immunodeficiency virus. In the USA alone an estimate of 120,000 - 160,000 women are HIV- infected.
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While rates of physical abuse were relatively low, 20 percent of women reported that in-laws had insulted them or their families in front of others during their pregnancies.
In one interview included in the study, a 17-year-old Muslim woman says her in-laws "want a boy child, and as you know, I delivered [a] girl child. My sister-in-law has some uterus problems, so she is unable to conceive a child. Now my in-laws want me to deliver another child [a boy] and give the girl to my sister-in-law."
The study brings to fore the need to screen family abuse and indicate that screening for in-law abuse also will likely improve the detection of abuse by husbands.
The study is published in the Maternal and Child Health Journal.
Source: ANI
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