Posted on 09/14/2013 7:38:40 PM PDT by lbryce
One in four men surveyed for a United Nations study in Asia and the Pacific admitted raping at least one woman.
The UN Multi-country Study on Men and Violence in Asia and the Pacific surveyed over 10,000 men at nine sites in six countries: Bangladesh, China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Sri Lanka. At the survey site in China, 23 percent of men admitted to at least one rape. In Papua New Guinea, that figure was 61 percent.
To understand what's behind such startling figures, National Geographic spoke with Rachel Jewkes, the lead technical adviser for the study.
You've studied rape extensively in South Africa and now across Asia and the Pacific. How did you get involved in this kind of research?
I moved out to South Africa from England in 1994. I had a job to set up the women's health research unit in the South African Medical Research Council. I was told that the key issues in women's health were things like teenage pregnancy, so I said, "Okay, I'm willing to do research on teenage pregnancy, but as part of this work I want to talk to teenagers about how they got pregnant." We interviewed 24 pregnant teenagers. Twenty-three out of the 24 told us stories about being raped. I had absolutely no idea that sexual violence was a phenomenon that could have this sort of prevalence.
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What would you suggest as the proper steps. Considering leaving him had to deal with the fact that he had severe abandonment issues, and the wife believed he had committed a murder at being abandoned. Since he was not beating her or their children, and fearing he would kill her and children if she left, suggest other options please.
See comment #41 for further details on true story. I agree that there needs to be differentiation in what constitutes what re legal situation.
She needs to see a lawyer who deals with family law. The lawyer needs to put her in touch with counseling and law enforcement people who understand and have experience with this kind of situation. If there is a reasonable suspicion to believe that this guy has indeed committed murder over a threatened abandonment in the past, then neither this woman nor her children are safe however safe she may feel she is. A person who has committed a past homicide is nobody to be trifled with.
No doubt the rape question was: “How many times did you engage in sex?”
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