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=Domestic violence in India= According to UNICEF, 51% of males and 54% of females believe that wife beating is justified. Up to 100,000 women are burned to death every year, while 125,000 die from violent injuries that are generally not reported to authorities as killings. According to a 2007 National Family Health Survey done in 29 Indian states, more than 37% of married women have been physically or sexually abused by their husbands, and based on a 2006 UNICEF report, 69 million children are witnesses to domestic violence. One in every seven married woman suffers from physical injury due to domestic violence.

Uttar Pradesh
A study conducted in 2006 shows that in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, husbands who had witnessed domestic violence as a child were 4.7 times more likely to harm and 3 times more likely to sexually abuse their wives than those who had never witnessed said violence.

Factors
Many factors contribute to domestic violence in India, such as education, socioeconomic status, childlessness, district murder rates, and previous exposure to domestic violence. Men who have received seven or more years of schooling are less likely to purely physically harm their wives, yet more likely to sexually abuse them. The risk of domestic violence occurring within a household is lower within a higher socioeconomic level, or those with more assets owned. Longer marriages, childlessness, husbands having extramarital relationships, and intergenerational exposure all result in a higher risk of physical violence towards women. However, those who have been in longer marriages are less likely to be sexually abused than physically abused. In addition, women living in districts with high murder rates are at a higher risk of receiving both physical and sexual violence from men. Additionally, women whose fathers beat their mothers are twice as likely to be in an abusive marriage later on in their lives. Dowry disputes, especially over low dowries, are also common causes of violence towards women, with an estimate of 25,000 to 100,000 women are killed each year for this reason.

Hesitancy to report cases of domestic violence
Despite its prevalence, only one in four of women who have experienced domestic violence have sought help at least once. However, two thirds of women have never sought help or told anyone of being abused. About 12% of women have told others or sought help after experiencing sexual violence. However, in Tamil Nadu, 3,983 cases of domestic violence were reported in 2011, which is 42% of all cases reported to authorities in India and is the highest percentage among any Indian state. This high percentage is due to women feeling more comfortable discussing and reporting incidents in their community. The number of reported domestic violence cases has increased by about 400% in this state, mainly because of women's newfound better sense of awareness and empowerment, which have come about partially because of local marriage practices; unlike some other Indian states, women in Tamil Nadu are allowed to marry within the village, or people with whom they are more familiar. The overall number of reported domestic violence cases has increased by 67% in all of India between 2008 and 2012.