The relationship between intimate partner violence andmaternal practices to correct child behavior: a study onwomen in Egypt

Background: this paper scrutinizes the association between maternal practices to correct childbehavior and the mothers’ exposure to and attitudes towards intimate partner violence (ipv).methods: nationally representative data comprising 14 016 married women were retrievedfrom the egyptian demographic and health survey, 2005. data on practices used to correct childbehavior, exposure to ipv, attitudes towards ipv were our primary interest. data were analyzedusing chi-square test and logistic regression.results: the majority of the mothers reported use of violent methods, like shouting (90.6%),striking (69.1%) and slapping (39.3%) to correct child behavior. seven percent of the mothersused only the explanation option. exposure to physical ipv and tolerant attitudes towards ipvwere associated with an augmented risk of using violent methods (shouting, striking or slapping) tocorrect child behavior. on the other hand non-tolerant attitudes towards ipv were associated withincreased likelihood of sole use of the explanation method.conclusions: we thus recommend the implementation of local parental education programsfocusing on communicative skills to reduce ipv and related child abuse.