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Children’s VoicesYou feel ashamed.12-year-old boy, IgangaI feel like committing suicide.15-year-old girl, KaseseI feel so worried and so lonely.13-year-old girl, WakisoI get so annoyed and feel if any boy just comes topropose to me I will just go and be married to him.16-year-old girl, ApacI feel very angry but do nothing about it, becausethey are stronger than me and older.13-year-old girl, KaseseIt’s like a curse.17-year-old girl, ApacI just say that “oh, it’s because I am a child that’swhy they are beating me and I have nothing to do.”12-year-old girl, KaseseI feel like getting a gun and I shoot the person, but Idon’t have the capacity of getting one.15-year-old boy, KaseseIt’s unfair, but I do not want any revenge for myaunt, because she is the only one caring about me.13-year-old girl, KaseseI feel like hiding away from my friends.14-year-old girl, ApacI feel embarrassed that my friends are going tolaugh at me.12-year-old boy, WakisoI always forgive those who beat me, because theBible instructs me to forgive whoever offends me.13-year-old girl, KaseseI feel like revenging, but I see that if I do that I willloose the chance of staying with him even though hedoes not take care of me very well.15-year-old boy, KaseseI feel very sad and ashamed especially when I seemy friends going to school and am just digging allthe time. Sometimes I hide from them so that theycan think that maybe I also once in a while go toschool. This hurts me a lot, because tomorrow thesevery people I am growing up with will be driving andcall me to wash their cars, simply because my fatherhas refused to give me school fees. God will pay himone day, because he has money but he says that healso never went to school.17-year-old boy, IgangaI feel pain but accept it, because my father istraining me to become a strong man and one whocan look after myself even when he is dead, so Iforgive my father.12-year-old boy, KaseseI justify the violence for the home people, but thosewho stop me on the way, I feel they have some badheart towards me and it is unfair.18-year-old girl, Apac42 Part Two Children’s Experiences
Children’s VoicesI feel like leaving home and staying with anyonewho cares about children.18-year-old girl, NakapiripiritI feel like going to become somebody’s housegirl.15-year-old girl, KaseseI keep the anger in heart against the offender, but Ido not tell the person.15-year-old girl, NakapiripiritI feel very bad when people go unpunished, like thefather who raped his daughter was not punished yethe is also a teacher.16-year-old girl, WakisoI go into deep thoughts of regret as to why I wasnot born somewhere else and could still go toschool. I feel desperate and wonder where myparents expect me to get money when they refuseto provide for me.14-year-old boy, IgangaI feel like maybe God does not like me.14-year-old boy, WakisoI feel like I will revenge when I finish my education.I will go and stay somewhere then come back homelater and ask them about the bad things they usedto do to me, then start helping them and tell themnever to do such things to their children.15-year-old boy, NakapiripiritI feel like killing myself all the time and amdisturbed, worried with a lot of thoughts.17-year-old girl, IgangaI feel like the person who has hurt me should diethat very moment.15-year-old girl, KaseseI cry a lot when I am beaten. I normally forget andforgive, because I love my parents and sometimesthey beat me with a reason, when I have committeda mistake.11-year-old girl, ApacI do not feel like revenge. I am just resigned to myfate, because I have to obey my parents and I havenowhere to go.17-year-old boy, KaseseI got so hopeless and helpless and tried to commitsuicide.15-year-old girl, KaseseI feel like escaping and going to another place.15-year-old boy, NakapiripiritI feel as if instead of insulting and shouting at meyou would rather beat me.14-year-old boy, WakisoYou feel like you are taken as a slave.16-year-old boy, IgangaI feel that people do not love me.12-year-old girl, ApacPart Two Children’s Experiences 43
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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 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
Page 89 and 90: In interviews, many teachers admitt
Page 91 and 92: Adults’ Voicestimes, I feel happy
Page 93 and 94: I know beating her has not changed
Page 95 and 96: QUESTION 7Are there ways in which a
Page 97 and 98: Adults’ VoicesAre there ways in w
Page 99 and 100: QUESTION 8What should be done when
Page 101 and 102: Adults’ VoicesWhat should be done
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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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