Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, 548893International University of Health and Welfare, Narita, Japan.
Graduate School of Health Management, 12869Keio University, Minato-ku, Japan.
J Interpers Violence. 2023 Jan;38(1-2):NP539-NP564. doi: 10.1177/08862605221082736. Epub 2022 Mar 26.
Incest is a globally prevalent phenomenon and is defined as sexual relations between closely related family members. Despite being a criminal offense irrespective to the gender and age incest is a prevalent issue in Nepal. Incest survivors are sheltered in safe homes for specific periods and reintegrated into their families following their healing. This research aims to explore the challenges and issues involved in the reintegration of incest survivors and investigate how the interconnected perceptions of families and individuals relate to the incest survivors' successful reintegration.
This qualitative study was conducted in three districts of Nepal. Fourteen incest survivors, five service providers from safe homes, and 22 community members were purposefully and theoretically selected. Semi-structured interviews were carried out to collect the study data, which were subsequently coded and analyzed using a grounded theory approach.
The results indicate the importance of the reintegration of incest survivors, as staying in a safe home may not offer a long-term solution for these individuals. However, reintegration is challenging without acceptance and support from the survivors' families and communities, the survivors' readiness to reintegrate, and agreement from the survivors' safe homes. Factors found to influence the unsuccessful reintegration of survivors included family fragmentation, socio-economic status, family resistance, the survivor-perpetrator relationship, survivors' interests, fears, and the possibility of repeated incidents, harmful social norms and cultural practices, community intervention, and negative perceptions.
This study found that factors associated with impeding the reintegration of incest survivors are found in survivors, their families, and their communities. Creating harmonious family systems, providing education on gender equality, empowering women to fight against all sorts of abuse, and governmental assurances on the implementation of legal aid, human rights, ratified conventions on child rights and women's rights may help prevention of incest, and address the reintegration challenges of incest victims.
乱伦是一种普遍存在的全球现象，被定义为近亲之间的性关系。尽管乱伦在尼泊尔是一种犯罪行为，无论性别和年龄如何，它都是一个普遍存在的问题。乱伦幸存者被安置在安全的家庭中，有特定的时间期限，在康复后重新融入他们的家庭。这项研究旨在探讨乱伦幸存者重新融入社会所面临的挑战和问题，并调查家庭和个人之间相互关联的观念如何与乱伦幸存者的成功重新融入相关。
这项定性研究在尼泊尔的三个地区进行。通过有目的和理论选择，确定了 14 名乱伦幸存者、5 名来自安全家庭的服务提供者和 22 名社区成员。进行了半结构化访谈，以收集研究数据，随后使用扎根理论方法对数据进行编码和分析。
研究结果表明，乱伦幸存者的重新融入非常重要，因为留在安全的家庭中可能不是这些人的长期解决方案。然而，如果没有幸存者的家庭和社区的接受和支持、幸存者重新融入的准备以及幸存者安全家庭的同意，重新融入将是具有挑战性的。影响幸存者重新融入失败的因素包括家庭破裂、社会经济地位、家庭抵制、幸存者-施害者关系、幸存者的兴趣、恐惧以及再次发生事件的可能性、有害的社会规范和文化习俗、社区干预和负面看法。
这项研究发现，阻碍乱伦幸存者重新融入的因素存在于幸存者、他们的家庭和社区中。建立和谐的家庭系统，提供关于性别平等的教育，赋予妇女权力，以打击各种形式的虐待，以及政府确保法律援助、人权、批准的儿童权利和妇女权利公约的实施，可能有助于预防乱伦，并解决乱伦受害者的重新融入挑战。
