Rejection, acceptance and the spectrum between: understanding male attitudes and experiences towards conflict-related sexual violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Rejection, acceptance and the spectrum between: understanding male attitudes and experiences towards conflict-related sexual violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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10.1186/s12905-017-0479-7
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2017-12-08
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VanRooyen M
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Kelly J;Albutt K;Kabanga J;Anderson K;VanRooyen M
冲突中性暴力的女性幸存者不仅经历了事件本身造成的身体和心理后遗症，而且往往会产生许多负面的社会后果，例如遭到家庭和社区的排斥和排斥。男性亲属——无论是丈夫、父亲还是兄弟——在决定家庭和社区如何对待性暴力幸存者方面发挥着关键作用。了解这些观点有助于改善对性暴力幸存者及其家庭和社区的服务。本研究利用了从刚果民主共和国东部地区68名男性焦点小组收集的定性数据。男性被问及作为遭受过性暴力的女性的亲属的经历。焦点小组讨论中出现了两个主要主题：导致拒绝的因素和接受的途径。导致拒绝的因素包括：对性传播疾病的恐惧，对丈夫本身的社会耻辱，以及对婚姻和忠诚的理解与强奸是不相容的。男性也谈到了他们自己的创伤，包括在公共场合目睹强奸的挣扎，或者照顾强奸受害者的孩子。他们指出，为幸存者提供医疗的经济负担是决定拒绝的一个突出因素。获得接受的途径包括配偶或亲属的爱、幸存者继续为家庭提供经济贡献的潜力、保持家庭在一起照顾孩子的需要以及来自社区重要人物的压力等因素。这项研究为男性亲属如何应对遭受性暴力的亲密家庭成员提供了独特的见解。这一点尤其重要，因为男性亲属在强奸后的反应可能是促进或阻碍幸存者康复的最关键因素。这些结果强调了服务的重要性，不仅要关注暴力幸存者本身，还要关注能够帮助她康复的关键家庭成员。本文的在线版本（10.1186/s12905-017-0479-7）包含补充材料，仅供授权用户使用。
Female survivors of sexual violence in conflict experience not only physical and psychological sequelae from the event itself, but often many negative social outcomes, such as rejection and ostracisation from their families and community. Male relatives – whether husbands, fathers, brothers – play a key role in determining how the family and community respond to a survivor of sexual violence. Understanding these perspectives could help improve services for survivors of sexual violence, as well as their families and communities. This study draws on qualitative data gathered from focus groups of 68 men in the eastern region of Democratic Republic of Congo. Men were asked about their experiences as relatives of women who had experienced sexual violence. Two dominant themes arose throughout the focus groups: factors driving rejection and pathways to acceptance. Factors driving rejection included: fear of sexually transmitted infections, social stigma directed toward the husbands themselves, and an understanding of marriage and fidelity that is incompatible with rape. Men also touched on their own trauma, including struggling with witnessing a rape that took place in public, or caring for a survivor with a child from rape. They noted that the economic burden of medical treatment for survivors was a salient factor in the decision to reject. Pathways to acceptance included factors such as the love of their spouse or relative, survivors’ potential to give continued financial contribution to the family, the need to keep the family together to care for children in the home, and pressure from people of importance in the community. This study provides unique insight into how male relatives respond to close family members who have experienced sexual violence. This is particularly critical since the reaction of a male relative after rape can be the most pivotal factor in promoting or impeding recovery for a survivor. These results emphasise the importance of services that focus not only on the survivor of violence herself, but also on key family members that can ideally help support her recovery. The online version of this article (10.1186/s12905-017-0479-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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