Experience of intimate partner violence among adolescent mothers in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Ying-Hisiu Lin, 林盈秀
• Other Authors: Yi-Ti Tung
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7485a3

碩士 === 中山醫學大學 === 醫學社會暨社會工作學系碩士班 === 101 === The Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is increasing globally. More studies are done in relevant to IPV. Most of these IPV studies focus on adults. Nevertheless, these studies rarely discuss teenage pregnancy including young adult mothers or adolescent mothers. Thus, only limited reports are revealed about teenage pregnancy—how these females are influenced after being threated and attacked by their partners. This research aims to study the Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) that teenage pregnancy suffered. Interviews with six adolescent mothers are conducted. They share their experiences of how they suffered from violence in intimate relationships. These interviewees are all younger than 25 years old. Adolescent mothers whose experiences of being bullied are listed in this research. This is to figure out what types of violence teenage pregnancy could possibly suffer from. In addition, this is to analyze how pregnancy affected adolescent mothers who had suffered from Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). Moreover, most teenage pregnancy females are from domestic violence or were bullied by their families before. This is proved by researches globally. However, this study further explains how adolescent mothers strongly affected by their childhood domestic violence, as well as, further analyzes how they react to IPV after marriage. Meanwhile, this study reveals the fact that culture weakens female self-determination and culture is teenage pregnancy’s biggest obstacle. Culture makes female difficult to fight for their rights and make females unwillingly concede their rights to bully. This is why young mothers usually do not dare to speak out loud when they suffer from Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). These adolescent mothers’ only hope is their offspring. They are willing to keep surviving no matter how deeply IPV hurts them. Surviving for their sons or daughters is the only reason. This research also compared the difference of level being bullied between adolescent mothers and young adult mothers. 6 main common characteristics among teenage pregnancy are found and listed below: Use pregnancy as a mean to recover from childhood domestic violence, strapped in their past experiences from their grown-up family, lack of self-determinations, stay helplessly in violence, feel helpless toward all-linked-with-one-another violence, and have only one hope— their offspring in lifetime. It is believed that research on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) can make practicable contributions to educational and social workers. This study helps these workers to have a better understanding of teenage pregnancy and thus to give them proper assistance.