Table 4 Attitude of mothers towards genital mutilation in Hababo Guduru district, west Ethiopia, 2014
Attitude towards FGM | Disagree | Neutral | Agree | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Frequency | % | Frequency | % | Frequency | % | |
FGM is a harmful traditional practice which should be stopped | 421 | 69 | 8 | 1.3 | 181 | 29.7 |
FGM would not prevent daughters from breaking utensils | 297 | 48.7 | 3 | 0.5 | 310 | 50.8 |
Uncircumcised daughters are not isolated | 357 | 58.5 | 14 | 2.3 | 239 | 39.2 |
FGM is not good for hygiene | 525 | 86.1 | 2 | 0.3 | 83 | 13.6 |
Nobody needs to marry uncircumcised women | 75 | 12.3 | 5 | 0.8 | 530 | 86.9 |
Being left without circumcision is shame | 18 | 2.9 | 0 | 0 | 592 | 97.1 |
Uncircumcised women do not respect other individuals | 251 | 41.2 | 7 | 1.1 | 352 | 57.7 |
Circumcision preserves virginity | 375 | 61.5 | 4 | 0.6 | 231 | 37.9 |
Over all attitude of respondents towards FGM | Positive | 323 | 53 | |||
Negative | 287 | 47 | ||||