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Asian Family Violence Report: Vietnamese
  • 39% of Vietnamese surveyed know a woman who has been physically abused or injured by her partner

  • 72% of the respondents were hit regularly by their parents when they were growing up

  • 22% of the respondents know a man who is being beaten by his partner

  • For help, Vietnamese respondents said a battered woman should turn to: police (49%), therapist (31%), shelter (29%), friend (29 %). Telling family members (17%) ranks lower than turning to social service and law enforcement professionals.

  • Vietnamese respondents overall believe that a man has the right to discipline his wife, can expect sex whenever he wants it, is the ruler of his home, or that wives deserve beatings.

  • Vietnamese respondents overall believe that women do not have the right to divorce, leave a husband who hits her and/or that the husband should be arrested.
 
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