BACKGROUND: We aimed to examine the influence of witnessing father-to-mother violence on: 1) perpetration of @entity1004 ( @entity1004 ); and 2) endorsement of attitudes justifying wife beating in Bangladesh. METHODS: This paper used data from the 2007 Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey. The analyses were based on the responses of 3374 ever-married @entity1 . Exposure to @entity1004 was determined by @entity1 's self-reports of witnessing inter-parental violence in childhood. We used adjusted binary logistic regression models to assess the influence of exposure on husbands' perpetration of @entity1004 and their endorsement of attitudes justifying wife beating. RESULTS: Nearly 60% of @entity1 reported violent behaviour towards an intimate partner and 35.7% endorsed attitudes justifying @entity734 . @entity1 who witnessed father-to-mother violence had higher odds of reporting any physical or sexual @entity1004 (adjusted OR [AOR]   =   3.26; 95% CI   =   2.61, 4.06). @entity1 who had witnessed father-to-mother violence were also 1.34 times (95% CI   =   1.08, 1.65) more likely endorse attitudes justifying @entity734 . CONCLUSIONS: Committing violence against an intimate partner is an all too frequent practice among @entity1 in Bangladesh. The study indicated that @entity1 who had witnessed father-to-mother violence were more likley to perpetrate @entity1004 , suggesting an intergenerational transmission of violence. This transmission of violence may operate through the learning and modelling of attitudes favourable to @entity734 . In support of this, witnnessing inter-parental violence was also associated with the endorsement of attitudes justifying @entity734 . Our findings indicate the continued importance of efforts to identify and assist @entity1 who have witnessed domestic violence and suggest such efforts should aim to change not just behaviours but also attitudes that facilitate such violence.

Assessing the link between witnessing inter-parental violence and the perpetration of XXXX in Bangladesh.

@entity1004 :: ('MESH:C563733', 'Disease') :: ['IPV', 'intimate partner violence'] @entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['Men', 'boys', 'men'] @entity734 :: ('MESH:D019966', 'Disease') :: ['spousal abuse']
@entity1004 :: (MESH:C563733,Disease) :: ['intimate partner violence']
