Decline of supportive attitudes among husbands toward female genital mutilation and its association to those practices in Yemen.

OBJECTIVES: To elucidate the attitudes of women and their husband's towards female genital mutilation (FGM) and their associations with the continuation of FGM upon their daughters. METHODS: Subjects were 10,345 (in 1997) and 11,252 (in 2003) ever married women aged 15 to 49 years from the Yeme...

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Main Authors: Ghadah Abdulmajid Al-Khulaidi, Keiko Nakamura, Kaoruko Seino, Masashi Kizuki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3867456?pdf=render