Meadows L M, Thurston W E, Lackner S
Departments of Family Medicine & Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, AB, Canada.
Health Care Women Int. 2001 Jul-Aug;22(5):439-54. doi: 10.1080/073993301317094272.
Most samples of adult women will contain a significant proportion who have been or are currently in abusive relationships. While past research has linked childhood abuse of girls to adult health concerns, little is known about the process through which women retrospectively reconcile these experiences. This article reports on data collected in an ongoing project on midlife women's health. Twenty-seven of 50 urban, middle-class participants in this phase of the project reported childhood abuse experiences. In the analysis, several aspects of these experiences were identified: definitions of abuse; recontextualizing abuse; responsibility for abuse; abuse avoidance; and experiences of multiple abuse. The women's discourse reflected a number of ideologies that provide a context in which women negotiate their understandings of these childhood experiences. This article provides insight into our understanding of abuse. It addresses the fundamental issue of promoting a worldview that precludes child abuse while leaving adult survivors with options for "moving on."
大多数成年女性样本中都会有相当比例的人曾经历过或正在经历虐待关系。虽然过去的研究将女童时期遭受的虐待与成年后的健康问题联系起来，但对于女性如何追溯性地梳理这些经历的过程却知之甚少。本文报告了一个正在进行的关于中年女性健康项目所收集的数据。该项目这一阶段的50名城市中产阶级参与者中有27人报告了童年虐待经历。在分析中，确定了这些经历的几个方面：虐待的定义；重新审视虐待；虐待的责任；避免虐待；以及多重虐待经历。这些女性的话语反映了一些意识形态，这些意识形态为女性协商她们对这些童年经历的理解提供了背景。本文有助于我们深入理解虐待问题。它探讨了一个根本问题，即倡导一种世界观，这种世界观既能防止儿童虐待，又能为成年幸存者提供“继续前行”的选择。
