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. 2018 Dec;108(12):1688–1694. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2018.304697

TABLE 2—

Percentage of Disapprovals for Interpersonal Violence and Traditional Harmful Practices by Study Adolescents: Afghanistan, 2016

Boys (n = 431), % Girls (n = 485), % P
Interpersonal violence
 Most husbands hit their wives 76.8 73.6 .27
 Most parents hit their children 72.6 71.1 .62
 Most teachers hit their students 59.6 61.9 .49
 Most boys hit their friends 83.3 71.6 < .01
 Most girls hit their friends 84.9 77.1 < .01
Traditional harmful practice
 Exchanging a daughter for family debt 99.1 98.4 .34
 Older men forcing a boy to have sex 99.8 100 .47a
 Marrying a child off before he or she is born 98.8 97.5 .14
a

Fisher exact test.