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Article: Surprise 'social status' finding in rape study.(Briewe)
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- South African Medical Journal
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
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To the Editor: The recent Izindaba report entitled above refers. (1) The link between higher levels of maternal education and the perpetration of rape by these women's sons in the rural Eastern Cape is worth comment. The explanation given by the members of the community advisory board was that the reported situation is due to the higher social status of the mothers in a society that has relatively few men because of premature death and migratory labour.
This begs the question as to why young men from families of higher social status would engage more frequently than their peers in violent crime against women and girls in their own community. After all, young men from ...