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doi:10.1038/nindia.2009.330; Published online 10 November 2009
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Violence and the baby
If a would-be mother is subjected to violence by an intimate partner — spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend — the chances of her baby dying as an infant or a child are higher than women with violence-free pregnancies.
A population-based survey on pregnant Indian women and their exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) concludes that the relationship between exposure to household IPV and child death could be attributable to the mother's inability to care for her child, psychological stress associated with witnessing violence, and the use of maternal violence victimisation as a proxy for child violence victimisation.
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