Het berichtje is inderdaad gebaseerd op een bericht uit 'The Star', zij hebben dit gequote uit het jaarrapport van de South African Medical research Council.
http://www.mrc.ac.za/annualreport/annual.html
Citaat:
Gender & Health Research Unit
Nearly one in five (18.9%) of the men interviewed for the Gender and Health Research Unit’s Stepping Stones study reported having raped a woman. This data is based on interviews with 1 370 men aged 15–26 who were asked about sexual violence against intimate partners and other women. Of these men, 16.3% reported raping a non-partner or participating in a form of gang rape. A total of 8.4% of these men also reported having been sexually violent towards an intimate partner. The mean
age of first rape was 17 years. The study revealed a great deal of overlap between the rape of a non-partner and partner, in that 44.3% of men who raped in intimate partner had also raped a nonpartner. The factors associated with rape of an intimate partner and a non-partner were very similar. Intimate partner rape was associated with having more adverse childhood experiences and a more educated mother. Men who had spent most of their childhood living with neither biological parent were less likely to have raped a partner. Childhood adversity and maternal education
were also associated with non-partner rape, in addition to having a higher socio-economic status, having earned money and having been a member of a club. Rape of a partner was associated with problem drinking; rape of a non-partner was also associated with problem drinking and in addition was associated with greater susceptibility to peer pressure to have sex, gang membership, and ever having used drugs. Rape of both a partner and a non-partner were more likely in men who had ever been physically violent to a partner, had transactional sex with a casual partner and had more sexual partners. This work is of substantial international importance because it is the first paper on rape perpetration from outside North America, and it is the first paper ever to be able to examine factors associated with rape of an intimate and non-intimate partner within one dataset. These findings do, however, largely support that of work that has been done in North America. It has considerably
contributed to an understanding of why South Africa has such a large-scale problem of rape, since many of the associated factors are highly prevalent. Many South African young people have grown up in circumstances of considerable adversity in childhood because of the destructive impact of apartheid on South African families. This has rendered many children vulnerable to sexual and emotional abuse, as have approaches to parenting that include the widespread use of corporal punishment. Alcohol is a situation factor in rape and alcohol abuse is a widespread problem in our communities. The other notable set of factors are those related to particular ideas of masculinity, where women are seen as objects to be conquered and controlled, sex is often seen as an
impersonal act of physical gratification with masculinity often defined in terms of sexual conquest, and where male peer group bonding is emphasised. Contrary to popular belief that men who rape are usually poor and unable to win women for consensual sex, we found that men of relatively higher social status were more likely to rape. Further research has been conducted to establish
and explain the connections between gender-based violence and HIV. In 2004 we published a ground
breaking paper in The Lancet on the association between gender-based violence and HIV in women in antenatal care in Soweto. This paper has been used prominently in gender advocacy work internationally and has been an important tool for promoting work on gender equity as part of HIV prevention for UNAIDS, UNIFEM, UNICEF and the WHO among other international agencies.
The unit has completed a paper looking at connections between HIV and gender-based violence
in 1 295 sexually active women from the rural Eastern Cape enrolled in the Stepping Stones Study at baseline. A total of 12.4% of women had HIV and 26.6% had experienced more than one episode of physical or sexual intimate partner violence. After adjusting for age, HIV infection was associated with having three or more partners in the past year, last having sex less than three months ago, having a partner three or more years older and a more educated partner. Intimate partner violence
was associated with HIV in two-way analyses, but the effect was non-significant after adjusting for HIV risk behaviours. Through further analysis, the unit was able to show that the experience of intimate partner violence was strongly associated with past year partner numbers, time since last sex, and partner’s education. It was also marginally associated with age difference between
partners. The conclusion was that intimate partner violence was strongly associated with most of the
identified HIV risk factors. These findings provide further evidence of links between intimate partner violence and HIV among women, as well as the importance of joint prevention.
Sommige dingen zijn toch wel opvallend. Ik ben ook wel benieuwd hoe dit onderzoek methodologisch gezien in elkaar zit. We moeten ntuurlijk wel kritisch blijven, zo kun je bij het afnemen van interviews (een kwalitatieve methode) genoeg kritische kanttekeningen maken.
Citaat:
For the record
October 25, 2006 Edition 4
Yesterday The Star reported that one in five South African men had admitted to rape in a Medical Research Council Survey. The MRC did not make clear in its annual report, released on Monday and from which The Star quoted, that the survey had been conducted in the rural Eastern Cape and was not a national survey. The Star apologises for any misconceptions that may have arisen as a result of this.
http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3502823
Dit is natuurlijk ook van belang, gezien er al allerlei conclusies worden verbonden aan Zuid-Afrikanen in het algemeen.
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