Table 1.
“What are the worst arguments with your spouse in the past year, and throughout your marriage in other years?” (free list; n=21 husbands, 25 wives)
| Husbands’ reports (n=115 arguments) | Wives’ reports (n=151 arguments) | Combined reports (n=266 arguments) | |||||||
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| Past year (n=56) | Other years (n=59) | % totala (rank) | Past year (n=76) | Other years (n=75) | % total (rank) | Past year (n=132) | Other years (n=134) | % totala (rank) | |
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| Wife is jealous with husband | 12 (7) | 22 (16) | 29.6 (1) | 20 (10) | 28 (14) | 31.8 (1) | 32 (17) | 50 (30) | 30.8 (1) |
| Husband’s use of money | 16 (8) | 5 (5) | 18.2 (2) | 7 (5) | 2 (2) | 6.0 (5) | 23 (13) | 7 (7) | 11.3 (2) |
| Husband drinks too much | 6 (4) | 6 (3) | 10.4 (3) | 5 (4) | 1 (1) | 4.0 (8) | 11 (8) | 7 (4) | 6.8 (5) |
| Husband does not hunt/fish | 3 (3) | 6 (5) | 7.8 (4) | 9 (6) | 3 (3) | 7.9 (3) | 12 (9) | 9 (8) | 7.9 (4) |
| Husband does not work in field | 6 (5) | 3 (3) | 7.8 (4) | 3 (3) | 3 (3) | 4.0 (8) | 9 (8) | 6 (6) | 5.6 (6) |
| Husband is jealous with wife | ----- | 7 (4) | 6.1 (6) | 5 (5) | 15 (8) | 13.2 (2) | 5 (5) | 22 (12) | 10.2 (3) |
| Wife does not care for joint child | 3 (3) | 3 (3) | 5.2 (7) | 4 (3) | 4 (3) | 5.3 (7) | 7 (6) | 7 (6) | 5.3 (7) |
| Wife lives far from natal kin | 3 (2) | 1 (1) | 3.4 (8) | 3 (2) | 2 (2) | 3.3 (11) | 6 (4) | 3 (3) | 3.4 (10) |
| Wife visits natal kin too often | 2 (2) | 2 (2) | 3.4 (8) | 1 (1) | ----- | 0.7 (16) | 3 (3) | 2 (2) | 1.9 (12) |
| Husband does not care for joint childb | ----- | 3 (2) | 2.6 (10) | 7 (5) | 3 (3) | 6.6 (4) | 7 (5) | 6 (5) | 4.9 (8) |
| Wife does not cook/wash clothes | 2 (2) | ----- | 1.7 (11) | 5 (4) | 4 (4) | 6.0 (5) | 7 (6) | 4 (4) | 4.1 (9) |
| Wife does not want to have sex | 2 (1) | ----- | 1.7 (11) | ----- | 3 (1) | 2.0 (13) | 2 (1) | 3 (1) | 1.9 (12) |
| Husband is wage laboring too often | ----- | 1 (1) | 0.9 (13) | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | 1 (1) | 0.3 (17) |
| Wife does not work in field | 1 (1) | ----- | 0.9 (13) | 4 (4) | 2 (2) | 4.0 (8) | 5 (5) | 2 (2) | 2.6 (11) |
| Wife is “unattractive” or sterile | ----- | ----- | ----- | 1 (1) | 3 (2) | 2.6 (12) | 1 (1) | 3 (2) | 1.5 (14) |
| Husband’s natal kin is “unkind” to wife | ----- | ----- | ----- | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | 1.3 (14) | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | 0.8 (15) |
| Husband visits others too often | ----- | ----- | ----- | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | 1.3 (14) | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | 0.8 (15) |
a
Total ≠ 100 due to rounding error
b
Includes complaints over a husband’s “neglect” that are unrelated to resource acquisition (e.g., involvement in reproductive decisions of adolescent children)