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Adults’ VoicesKey Informant InterviewFemale Community LeaderQ: What is commonly done when people punishchildren in your community?A: Beating is commonly used, glaring, quarrellingwith children, shouting, insulting, neglecting,refusing to take children to school even whenparents are able.Q: Are many children punished in your community?A: Yes, most children are punished regularly, bothboys and girls.Q: Do you punish your children or other children youcome in contact with?A: I punish all children, whether mine or not,who are doing wrong and they are within mycommunity, because it is our responsibility aselders to guide our children. I don’t discriminatebetween boys and girls. It only depends on whohas done wrong.Q: How do you punish them?A: I always use a stick for boys. I also take them toschool and ask teachers to beat them so hard,because me as their mother, even if I beat, theyonly cry and repeat the same mistakes. But whena stranger beats them, they fear and change. Isometimes shout at them, but I so much believein the stick. For girls, I send them to fetch waterbecause girls have to be protected againstgetting scars, so that in future many cattlecan be paid for bride price.Q: In your opinion, does punishing children inthis way help them learn what they have donewrong?A: Yes, because when you beat a child, sherarely does the same mistake or takes longto repeat it, because they fear the pain of thestick or feel ashamed.Q: How does punishing children make them feel?A: They feel very scared of the parent anddon’t do any wrong in the parent’s presence.They don’t feel happy, some feel sorry forthe wrongs they have done and come andapologize. Even though the child feels hatedand always avoids the mother or the personwho punishes them, the good ones in theirheart know that they are being punished fortheir own good.Q: Can you share with us how you feel or what youare thinking when you are punishing children?A: I feel pain and sometimes cry after beatingmy children, but I do it for their own good.Sometimes I am not happy and regret whenI realize that I have beaten the child so hardand she is swollen or has small wounds. At78 Part Three Adults’ Rationale
Adults’ Voicestimes, I feel happy when I punish and mychildren change and even apologize to me,because then I know I punished them for aright cause.Q: In your opinion, do children have a right not tobe punished in a way that hurts them physicallyor makes them feel bad about themselves?A: No, children don’t have that right. It is theirparents to show them what is good and bad,and they cannot see this on their own.Q: Are there ways in which adults mistreat childrenin your community?A: Making children of 8 years carry heavy 20-liter jerry cans of water, excessive beating,most children are neglected because parentsdon’t take care of them and just go and drinkalcohol. Children are not given medical care.You see them walking around with sores andnobody cares. Girls of 12 years are forced tomarry old men, because they offer cattle totheir fathers.Q: What should be done when adults mistreatchildren?A: You reason with the adult, because oftenthey just want what is good for the child.You should not be too quick to take them tohigher authority, even if they sometimes beatbadly.Q: Do you have any other thoughts or feelingsabout how children are treated in yourcommunity?A: Many, too many, children are abused inour community, but it is hard for adultstoo. We need help to find better ways ofsolving our problems instead of just beating.Government should reach out to us.female, community leader, NakapiripiritPart Three Adults’ Rationale 79
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DedicationThis work is dedicated to
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TABLES1.1 Children consulted throug
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThis study examine
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a new dimension to the adult-child
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PART ONEResearch DesignPURPOSE OF S
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PARTICIPANTSA total of 1406 childre
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METHODOLOGYData CollectionThe resea
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Children’s VoicesWhat do you unde
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QUESTION 1Have you experienced viol
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QUESTION 2Have you experienced phys
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Children’s VoicesHave you experie
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QUESTION 3Have you experienced emot
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QUESTION 4Have you experienced sexu
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