Grocke M, Smith M, Graham P
Department of Child Psychiatry, Institute of Child Health, University of London, UK.
Child Abuse Negl. 1995 Aug;19(8):985-96. doi: 10.1016/0145-2134(95)00060-l.
This study investigated the impact of a mother's experience of childhood sexual abuse on her discussion of sex with her child. Two groups of sexually abused and nonabused mothers, drawn from a larger community sample and matched for social class and the sex and age of their index children, were asked about discussion of sexual information within their family. Children were interviewed about their sexual knowledge. Significantly more mothers who reported an incident of sexual abuse during their childhood said that they had detailed discussions with their child about sexual development and contraception than mothers who reported no childhood incidence of abuse. Although there was no difference between the two groups in independent interviewers' ratings of the children's overall sexual knowledge, more children from the abused mothers' group mentioned their parents as a definite source of sexual information, in particular, regarding contraception. There were also differences between the two groups in the children's responses to a set of ambiguous pictures. More children in the abused mothers' group than the nonabused group gave stories related to child abductions and the possibility of sexual abuse in response to two of the pictures. A mothers' willingness to acknowledge childhood sexual abuse is related to more open discussion of sexual information within the family.
本研究调查了母亲童年期遭受性虐待的经历对其与孩子谈论性话题的影响。从一个更大的社区样本中选取了两组母亲，一组曾遭受性虐待，另一组未遭受性虐待，两组在社会阶层以及她们的索引孩子的性别和年龄方面进行了匹配，研究人员询问了她们家庭中性信息的讨论情况。同时，对孩子们进行了访谈，了解他们的性知识。与那些童年期未发生性虐待事件的母亲相比，显著更多童年期曾遭受性虐待事件的母亲表示，她们与孩子就性发育和避孕问题进行了详细的讨论。尽管两组孩子在独立访谈者对其总体性知识的评分上没有差异，但来自曾遭受性虐待母亲组的更多孩子提到他们的父母是性信息的明确来源，尤其是在避孕方面。在孩子们对一组模糊图片的反应上，两组之间也存在差异。与未遭受性虐待母亲组相比，曾遭受性虐待母亲组中有更多孩子针对其中两张图片给出了与儿童绑架以及性虐待可能性相关的故事。母亲承认童年期遭受性虐待的意愿与家庭中对性信息更开放的讨论有关。
