***It may be that the father cannot stand the idea that his daughter is loose so he figures it must be the boys fault....and so the beating.***
Girls get pregnant. Boys don’t. Boys walk free of responsibility.
All the more reason for the girl to say no, she has a lot to lose and the boy, if he escapes a beating from her father, usually skates. The father acted on impulse...an understandable impulse, but I know from my own life that acting on impulse is almost always the wrong action.