3. Most of the respondents believed that problems within the family should not be discussed with outsiders (66.7%), where more women (72.1%) tended to believe this statement than men (56.8%). 4. Out of the total respondents 9.9% stated that a wife should be shown who is the boss. More women (10.4%) supported this statement compared to men (8.6%). 5. More respondents from the outer islands (24.3%) strongly agree with this statement when compared with urban dwellers (6.4%). 6. Majority of the respondents disagreed with the statement that a woman has to obey her husband if he asks her to do something that conflicts with Islam (80.4%). More women (84.7%) than men (72.9%) disagreed with this statement. Slightly more respondents from urban regions (89.8%) did not support this statement when compared with people from outer islands (74.5%). 7. Over a half (52.2%) of the respondents feel that it is the duty of the wife to have sex with her husband even if she does not feel like it. 60% of women were in agreement with this statement. 8. Most people (57.0%) believe that people outside of the family are justified in attending to a woman being abused by her husband. The number of male respondents who agree that others outside the family should intervene if a man mistreats his wife increased from 48.2% in 2005 to 54.9% in 2011 to 59.1% in 2019. 9. Most of the people surveyed (67.85%) did not believe any of the justifications provided can condone a husband being physically abusive towards his wife. 10. 12.4% (13.5% females and 9.6% males) of the respondents believed that the husband can hit his wife if she fails to obey him. 11. 26.8% (29.9% females and 20.8% males) of the respondents said they believed it would be justified for a man to hit his wife if she went against Islam. 12. 12.1% (11.4% females and 12.8% males) of the respondents said a husband is justified in hitting his wife if she physically abuses the children. Domestic Violence 1. 21.2% of the respondents identified physical abuse as a form of domestic violence. 2. Half of the respondents believed that sexual abuse in a domestic relationship constituted an offence. 3. When the respondents were asked to identify what domestic relationships are, 20.4% said it was parents or persons who have or had parental responsibility for a child, 20.3% understood it as the relationship between people who are or were married to each other, 15.1% believed it is one that exists between persons who are family members related by consanguinity, affinity or marriage, and 14.1% thought persons who 9