Social disapproval of wife assaults: a national survey of Singapore.
Few studies outside North America have examined social attitudes regarding wife assaults. This article reports the results of a national survey of 510 randomly selected Singapore adults. Similar to findings in the U.S. and Australia, this study found overwhelming public disapproval of wife beating...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Comparative Family Studies Vol. 27; pp. 73 - 89 |
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Journal of Comparative Family Studies
Spring 1996
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