Abstract:
The prevalence of condoning attitudes toward spousal violence (SV) is high
in Ghana, yet much is not known about how the development of children
is compromised in households where attitudes toward SV are tolerated.
This study is premised on two objectives: (a) examination of the effect of
parents condoning attitudes toward SV on early childhood development;
and (b) investigation of the effect of parents condoning attitudes toward
SV on the amount of learning support children receive from household
members. Data on 2,740 children aged between 36 and 59 months were
drawn from the 2011 Ghana Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey for the first
objective and 1,595 households with children aged between 4 and 15 years
were sourced from the 2014 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey for the
second. Analytical methods employed are descriptive statistics, instrumental
variable (IV), and ordinary least squares (OLS) micro-econometric estimation
