ABSTRACT
The study was carried out to find the conditions of living of child mothers, case study of
Bungatira Sub County, Gulu district.
The research was based on child mothers who faced vigorous and dehumanizing experience, acts
which led to social, political, psychological and economic suffering. The patriarchal values and
conditions that lead to causes, challenges placed on child mothers for the sexual fulfillment of
men and its reinforcement to make it an abuse and violation of Human rights of such child
mothers; and community's rejection of child mothers of girls' returnees. It also emphasized on
the measures to avert the trend of the conceptualized issues.
The research was carried out in Gulu district, Bungatira Sub County. The sample of Respondents
included the child mothers, stake holders and interpersonal psycho-therapy for grouping
facilitator from different NGO's in the child mothers' centers. Frequencies tables, coding and
tabulation were used to present the data while percentages were used to analyzed information.
The result showed that child mothers in Bungatira Sub County experienced the same hardship.
Those who were captured by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) face additional challenges that
are as a product of psychological trauma, stigma, biological gender, political, economic and
social conditioning.
The report cites out, rape, defilement, war, poverty, HIV I AIDS, orphans and culture as the root
cause of child motherhood.
The challenges on the child mothers faced were, stigmatization disagreement, life change,
provision of basic necessities, loneliness or isolation, poor relationship, inadequate medical care
and school fees provision to their children. It also identifies possible measures like provision of seeds, vocational skills training, education and provision of school fees, provision of food staff to the family, counseling, encouraging them to join groups and clubs and ploughing for them large chuck of land and work as a team through provision of such services the well being of child mothers can be improved and I made some recommendation to be taken by government, NGO's and scholars to effect implementation of policies regarding child abuse and labor.
, N (2021). A Situational Analysis Of Living Conditions Of Child Mothers In Bungatira Sub County In Gulu District In Northern Uganda.. Afribary. Retrieved from https://tracking.afribary.com/works/a-situational-analysis-of-living-conditions-of-child-mothers-in-bungatira-sub-county-in-gulu-district-in-northern-uganda
, NENOJESCA "A Situational Analysis Of Living Conditions Of Child Mothers In Bungatira Sub County In Gulu District In Northern Uganda." Afribary. Afribary, 11 Jun. 2021, https://tracking.afribary.com/works/a-situational-analysis-of-living-conditions-of-child-mothers-in-bungatira-sub-county-in-gulu-district-in-northern-uganda. Accessed 13 Nov. 2024.
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, NENOJESCA . "A Situational Analysis Of Living Conditions Of Child Mothers In Bungatira Sub County In Gulu District In Northern Uganda." Afribary (2021). Accessed November 13, 2024. https://tracking.afribary.com/works/a-situational-analysis-of-living-conditions-of-child-mothers-in-bungatira-sub-county-in-gulu-district-in-northern-uganda