The motivation of this article comes from the observation that in India, more women than men justify violence. This study seeks to analyze this issue through an interplay of familial relationships along with micro-level factors in explaining attitudes. Also, this article aims to associate women’s perception of subjugation level with her lower sense of entitlement toward medical care and child vaccination. We use the National Family Health Survey 2015–2016 data of India of 47,514 married couples to analyze the above issues. Logistic odds ratios predict the factors of violence justification, and a bivariate probit model is used to analyze the joint probability of seeking antenatal care (ANC) and complete child vaccination. We find that (a) there is a significant variation within couples in their responses to the justification variables; even when both spouses disapproved of violence, around 18% of women reported facing the same. This number is 40% when both justified, (b) the higher the number of marital controls women face, the odds of justifying violence increases by three times, (c) also, the joint probability of utilizing both full ANC and Vaccination decreases by 11 percentage points with women living in the most restrictive marital environment. When international conventions and countrywide efforts are geared toward eliminating domestic violence, it is surprising that women themselves justify getting beaten by their husbands over domestic issues. Therefore, policies need to break the vicious chain of normalizing social norms that promote violence.

这篇文章的动机来自以下观察：在印度，为暴力辩护的女性多于男性。本研究试图通过家庭关系与解释态度的微观因素之间的相互作用来分析这个问题。此外，本文旨在将女性对征服水平的看法与她对医疗保健和儿童疫苗接种的较低权利感联系起来。我们使用印度 47,514 对已婚夫妇的 2015-2016 年全国家庭健康调查数据来分析上述问题。Logistic 优势比预测暴力正当性的因素，并使用双变量概率模型分析寻求产前保健 (ANC) 和完整儿童疫苗接种的联合概率。我们发现 (a) 夫妻对理由变量的反应存在显着差异；即使配偶双方都反对暴力，仍有约 18% 的女性报告面临同样的情况。这个数字是 40%，当两者都合理时，(b) 妇女面临的婚姻控制次数越多，为暴力辩护的几率增加三倍，(c) 同时，充分利用两者的联合概率女性生活在最严格的婚姻环境中，ANC和疫苗接种率下降了 11 个百分点。当国际公约和全国范围内的努力都旨在消除家庭暴力时，令人惊讶的是，妇女自己为因家庭问题而被丈夫殴打是合理的。因此，政策需要打破促进暴力的社会规范正常化的恶性链条。