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Violence against young children: what does gender have to do with it?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Barker, Gary Fontes Miguel Nascimento, Marcos |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | There are clear connections between children's experience of violence, as victims or witnesses, and violence against women – often referred to as gender-based violence – and, indeed, gender equality in general. For example, global un estimates suggest that 30% of the world's women will experience violence from a male partner over their lifetimes. We know that young children are frequently present when this violence happens or live in households where it takes place. Both programme experience and research suggest that violence against women and violence against children are intricately intertwined, and can and should be discussed and addressed together. Yet research, programme interventions and advocacy efforts on the two issues often operate in parallel, seldom-overlapping worlds. In this article we use gender as a lens through which to view the issue of violence against young children and possible interventions. It is important to affirm from the start that the concept of gender is not only about women and girls. It should be understood as referring to the social factors that shape both masculinities and femininities, women and men, girls and boys, the power relations between them, and the structural contexts that create and reinforce these power relations. The global data shows that, in interaction with the individual characteristics and life experiences of caregivers and children, there are three overlapping factors which underpin violence against children: 1. poverty and structural inequalities that shape care settings and frequently affect whether parents, families and other caregivers have the means to adequately care for their children in non-violent and non-stressed ways; 2. cultural and social norms related to child-rearing practices and the acceptability of corporal punishment and other forms of violence against children (and women, and between men and boys); and 3. gender norms and dynamics, specifically views that boys need be raised to be physically 'tough' and emotionally stoic while girls are seen as fragile, inferior and/or subordinate to boys and men. |
| Starting Page | 27 |
| Ending Page | 32 |
| Page Count | 6 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://promundoglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Violence-against-young-children-what-does-gender-have-to-do-with-it.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
