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Children’s VoicesHave you experienced sexual violence?My uncle forces me to kiss him on the mouth.12-year-old girl, IgangaMy friend’s father disturbs her [makes sexual advances] at night when her mother travels to the village.13-year-old girl, KaseseI was forced to marry with an old man of over 30 years who had raped me.16-year-old girl, NakapiripiritOur neighbour defiled his 9-year-old child. When he was got, he said, “The mother queen eats her ownants.” The man was 45 years old.14-year-old boy, IgangaWhen my mother asks my father to be quiet at night in bed, he says, “Let him hear! He will have tolearn what he has to do with a woman.”13-year-old boy, ApacA young girl got pregnant and her mother chased her away because she had ashamed them. It iscommon here for girls to get pregnant when they are in school, and their parents mistreat them andchase them away from home.12-year-old boy, WakisoOne of the teachers in my former school wanted to defile my friend. He asked her to take books to hishouse and he takes advantage of her but she escaped. She reported it to the headmaster who ignoredit. He did not take it serious.16-year-old girl, Wakiso28 Part Two Children’s Experiences
Children’s VoicesRelatives, especially the males, make love affairs with girls in homes and when they make thempregnant they deny or take them for abortions and sometimes the girls die.13-year-old boy, ApacEveryone thinks it is common to have your buttocks pinched. “What’s the problem,” a man can ask.“Don’t you like it?”16-year-old girl, IgangaA teacher defiled a girl in our school and the parents refused to take him to court. They just accepted700,000/= he paid them. Nothing happened to the teacher.12-year-old boy, WakisoThere is a woman who gives a boy money to let her touch him and to make him do things to her.13-year-old boy, IgangaSome girls are asked by their parents, “What will we eat today?”14-year-old girl, ApacA young girl was taken forcefully by a man of 30 years old from her father’s house. He paid the cattleand got his friends to help him carry the screaming girl. It is common here.16-year-old boy, NakapiripiritThey touch my breasts, my buttocks, anything! These boda-boda [scooter] men are too much. Someoneshould do something.16-year-old girl, IgangaYou cannot walk through the market without a man touching you. He squeezes your breasts as if heowns them.15-year-old girl, ApacPart Two Children’s Experiences 29
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Page 5 and 6: DedicationThis work is dedicated to
Page 7 and 8: TABLES1.1 Children consulted throug
Page 9 and 10: EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThis study examine
Page 11 and 12: a new dimension to the adult-child
Page 13 and 14: PART ONEResearch DesignPURPOSE OF S
Page 15 and 16: PARTICIPANTSA total of 1406 childre
Page 17 and 18: METHODOLOGYData CollectionThe resea
Page 19 and 20: Through this process, two interesti
Page 21 and 22: Children’s VoicesWhat do you unde
Page 23 and 24: esearch.Children’s Conception of
Page 25: It was recognized during the format
Page 28 and 29: QUESTION 1Have you experienced viol
Page 30 and 31: QUESTION 2Have you experienced phys
Page 32 and 33: Children’s VoicesHave you experie
Page 34 and 35: QUESTION 3Have you experienced emot
Page 38 and 39: QUESTION 4Have you experienced sexu
Page 42 and 43: QUESTION 5Have you experienced econ
Page 46 and 47: QUESTION 6Who commits violence agai
Page 48 and 49: Children’s VoicesKey Informant In
Page 50 and 51: QUESTION 7How do you feel when viol
Page 52 and 53: Children’s VoicesHow do you feel
Page 54 and 55: Children’s VoicesYou feel ashamed
Page 56 and 57: QUESTION 8What do you do when viole
Page 58 and 59: Children’s VoicesWhat do you do w
Page 60 and 61: QUESTION 9What, if anything, should
Page 62 and 63: Children’s VoicesWhat, if anythin
Page 64 and 65: Children’s VoicesSensitize elders
Page 66 and 67: KEY FINDINGSMore than 90 percent of
Page 69 and 70: PART THREEAdults’ Rationale for V
Page 71 and 72: QUESTION 1Are children punished in
Page 73 and 74: Adults’ VoicesCulturally, we watc
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Page 77 and 78: QUESTION 3How often do you punish c
Page 79 and 80: Adults’ VoicesHow often do you pu
Page 81 and 82: In what ways do you punish children
Page 83 and 84: Adults’ VoicesIn what ways do you
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Adults’ Voicestimes, I feel happy
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I know beating her has not changed
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QUESTION 7Are there ways in which a
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Adults’ VoicesAre there ways in w
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QUESTION 8What should be done when
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Adults’ VoicesWhat should be done
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6. Adults believe in a hierarchy of
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PART FOURRecommendationsWHAT WOULD
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violence. The legislation should in
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3.6 RESEARCHCommission research tha
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5.9 COMMUNITY SENSITISATIONIntroduc
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Part Four Recommendations101
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