In this setting, qualitative studies are needed to improve the knowledge and understanding of men's and women's exposure to IPV to shed light on motives, seriousness and level of threat that such violence induces in the victim.
Additional hypothesized pathways linking intimate partner violence and induced abortions are that abused women might be more likely to have had an induced abortion because their abusive partners forced them to have one or because the women feel unable to raise a child in an abusive relationship [ 7, 20].
The association between sexual intimate partner violence and induced abortion established in this study lends support to recent studies which find that reproductive control is highly frequent in abusive relationships, with male partners threatening women to get pregnant, forcing women to unprotected sex, and sabotaging their contraception [ 20].
Studies conducted in low-income countries that used population-based, representative survey data, namely Bangladesh [ 4], India [ 5], Cambodia, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti [ 6] have found an association between physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence and induced abortion and pregnancy loss.
As early as preschool, the threat or the experience of violence can induce stress that distorts academic performance.
She knew that desire can ignite compulsions to commit sudden, arbitrary violence and induce a yearning for voluptuous, annihilating death.
Jamie Angus, editor of Radio 4's Today programme, says the balance is particularly hard to get right with foreign news: "There's an element about the repetition of covering extreme violence [that induces] desensitisation and fatigue [when] you feel you've heard so many terrible things – as with Syria.
Using alcohol causes violence and induces crime, unlike cannabis, said the leader of Cannabis is Safer than Alcohol Party (CISTA).
