Sounds like 1914 not 2014. Seems about right for the Bahamas.

All that 'spare the rod spoil the child ' nonsense and beating the living snot out of kids ,,geez i wonder why they grow up to see physical force as conflict resolution ,,We are a de evolving country

you sound retarded

I live on an island where i see the kids grow up that got the snot beat out of them ,its not a pretty picture as they mature to young violent thugs ..There are too many studies citing the correlation to dispute it .Sitting behind a key board claiming i have a mental condition proves little except that when you don,t like some ones opinion you resort to name calling .

and which island is this ? lemme guess: Rikers Island Inmate Says He Was Beaten And Sodomized By Guard
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Is that all you got ,inmate humor and homosexual rape fantasies ,strange the things that are rattling around in your head ..

He's right. Even if you believe in spare the rod spoil the child, there is no reason to beat a child with a hanger, shoe, wire , to throw a bottle at a child or to beat them black and blue. That is ANGER not discipline and in no way resembles, "training" a child. When you **abuse** children they grow up to be abusers or to think **abuse** is "normal". They then tell researchers nonsense like a man has the right to "discipline" his girlfriend or wife as if that is an appropriate solution.

So these are our kids and the learnt from us. Shame on us.

This is scary stuff. I fear the Church is mostly to blame

This sounds like a flawed survey. How the questions are asked and what questions are asked are important. Then you cannot present empirical data without any margins of error. What is the the hypothesis of this study? There are too many unanswered questions about this academic study which appears to only be partially represented in this article. If COB is going to become a univeristy it has to do better. They should not allow the paper to publish bits and pieces of researched data. It does not tell the whole story of how this study was conducted and by whom. Not all researchers are created equal.

I don,t need this study , i can set under the tree in my family island and listen to the majority of men who think beating 'their ' women is normal .and all the no good dead beat dudes that go on bout'god and da bible say da man is da head of da house "' .I can ask any girl out and 7 out of 10 will say 'what ya ga do for me "

get real!

What no more name calling , and here i thought you are a true wordsmith .

I considered some of the same questions while I read the article. However, just because I haven't seen all the data and study methodology doesn't mean that the study is flawed. I will simply have to do more digging on my own. That's part of what it means to be objective.

This exactly why our country goes no where. People don't have any sense of order. Its a free for all type thinking without any sensible data to support theories. The question is where will you dig? What access to journals etc do we as Bahamians have to these studies? Furthermore, do these studies live up to the standard of eithe qualatative or quantatative research and analysis? This is the exact problem with Bahamians, we believe everything we read or hear. No analysis, no perusal just abunch of gossipers and heresayers.

Regarding access to journals, this article says the study is published in the International Journal of Bahamian Studies. That journal is available on The College of The Bahamas website. Easy to find.

All I am saying is that you should read the study before you bash it, lest you also be accused of making statements without facts to back them up.

So what you're saying is that you are to lazy to google the study? Granted the reporter should have included a link but the journal is freely available. It took me all of 10 seconds to find the article but here you go http://journals.sfu.ca/cob/index.php/fi…

Gross immaturity and ignorance!

Unfortunately for the average Bahamian male, he is already at a disadvantage when he makes is first social encounter with a member of the opposite sex. The girl is likely to come from a home where her parents and family stand behind her, she has friends who give her advice, she may be more educated than her male counterpart and, if she is working, she may be earning more than him. So the young men start off at a disadvantage and in a "trying to catch up mode." Hence the average Bahamian male is in crisis. Yet, while many are supporting gender equality as noted in this forum, young men are still expected to carry the financial burden of dating or socializing with members of the opposite sex and while many say a man is no longer the head of the family or household, men are still expected to be the primary provider for his family. In fact we are only now seeing a change in trend where unmarried fathers are being given equal or regular access to their children and its doubtful that any (single) mother in the Bahamas has been ordered by the courts to pay child support for her children. When you speak of gender equality you are actually talking of taking power from one gender and giving it to the other. You are stripping a man of his authority to be the head of the family and saying this is now a shared responsibility. Of course there will be conflicts and breakdowns in relationships hen women now have the legal right to have her own way. So the question now is what does a man do when he can no longer control his wife or spouse? I guess I am old school and cannot see how it will work. But more than half the girls in the report expect their male counterparts to disclipine them

I can picture you brow beating and physically threatening a women and feeling your religion supports it ..Your dislike of women and low self esteem is thinly veiled .

Actually you were looking in the mirror at your own shortcomings. A real man never has to abuse a woman to assume his role.

And you sir are a real man ,in three post you have managed to belittle the mentally challenged ,demean women and put forth your fantasy of being raped by a man in prison ..

I didn't know men where meant to control their wife. It sounds quite stupid and misplaced in the world we live in. It has nothing to do with being old school. Bahamian men simply want to possess people or things. "Das mines," type attitude. So when their heart gets broken or the woman gets tired of the controlling relationship and attempts to deviate from the norm the dude gets mad. Bahamian guys are too emotional and we are teaching that same erattic emotional behaviour to younger males. So, what does 'discipline' in that questionnaire mean?

"when you talk about gender equality you are actually talking about taking power from one gender and giving it to the other." Gender equality is about ensuring equal opportunity between men and women. And you talk about poor men being the victims in gender equality? And what do men do when they no longer control his wife? You can't see how it works? It's 2014 sir, to hell with the old school, and do yourself a favor and do some light reading on women's struggles, even in the our Bahamas.

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was this study commissioned by leslie miller?

And, in the meantime, i am writing my PHD thesis on the "Attittudes of Talk show callers towards sitting Prime Ministers"

Anytime you go against the word of God you will have problems. God made man to have dominion over the earth and everything that dwelleth therein, and he made woman to be his helpmate and companion. There is no record of Adam beating or abusing Eve. Even when she was beguiled by the serpent and made to eat the forbidden fruit Adam stood by her and 'he to did eat of the fruit". It wasn't until God came to Adam and ask him what he had done did he try to distance himself from the woman: "this woman that thou givest me, she bid me eat (the fruit) and I did eat." The woman, at that time, did not have the authority to speak to God, so she remained silent. Ask any woman today if they want a soft and weak man for a husband. A strong and virtuous woman makes a man even stronger.

So how do you account for the wives of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who manipulated their husbands? Women in the Bible ALWAYS had the upper hand. Check Eve, Esther, Abigail, Naomi, Deborah, Jezebel and Delilah etc.

And that is one of the reasons this society so sexist and the men so misogynistic, if you read Genesis I it doesn't give gender or sex roles, it was man's interpretation later that added this Adam and Eve nonsense. How can you expect a nation to not be sexist when it is a Christian nation? Christianity is and always has been sexist. Oh 'woman was silent because she didn't have the authority to speak'...well no wonder Bahamian women feel they need to ask if they can go out. That story was made up for men to justify their patriarchal hegemonic domination. Women have never been accepted into the church as man's equal, if this is the dogma your christian ideology preaches you should expect no less from the society until you free yourself from false religious preconceived notions of man and woman.

The old testament is very similar to Shira law ,thats why men that want to oppress women like it ..

Agreed. and how do you account for Hindu wives killing themselves to honour their dead husbands?