Gender-based domestic violence (GBDV) continues to pose a serious
threat to woman folk and the society at large. All efforts to reduce the
menace have not yielded an impressive result and thus, the prevalence rate is
still unacceptably high. Employing analytic nationally representative
weighted sample size, 15,941women aged 15-49 years who were currently
pregnant or ever had at least one pregnancy experience were interviewed for
domestic violence through quantitative instrument (questionnaire). The data
were analysed with a chi-squared test and binary logistic regression using
STATA 13. Overall, one quarter (24.7%) of the total respondents who ever
experienced domestic violence from their spouses or intimate sexual partners
reported having experienced unwanted/unintended pregnancy. It was evident
in the study that GBDV is significantly related to unwanted pregnancy even
after controlling for all other tested independent variables like age,
educational attainment, wealth index, religion, place of residence and other
fertility related variables such as number of children ever born, contraceptive
use and pregnancy termination experience. Spousal abuse in any form is a
crucial predictor of unwanted pregnancy in Nigeria. Therefore, addressing
gender-based domestic violence is critical to reducing the menace of
unwanted pregnancy and taming unnecessary population growth in Nigeria.