How trauma related to sex trafficking challenges parenting: Insights from Mexican and Central American survivors in the US

Autor: Manuela Orjuela, Marti Marti Castaner, Cassie Landers, Lori Cohen, Rachel Fowler
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Child abuse
IMPACT
Epidemiology
Emotions
Psychological intervention
Social Sciences
CHILDREN
Criminology
Anxiety
Pediatrics
Developmental psychology
Stress Disorders
Post-Traumatic
Families
Sociology
Risk Factors
Surveys and Questionnaires
HISTORY
Medicine and Health Sciences
ANXIETY
Psychology
Public and Occupational Health
Survivors
Child Abuse
Human Families
Children
media_common
Multidisciplinary
Parenting
Depression
MOTHERS
Traumatic Injury Risk Factors
PTSD
Hispanic or Latino
Fear
DEPRESSION
EXPERIENCES
POVERTY
ATTACHMENT
Mental Health
Child
Preschool
Medicine
Female
Crime
Research Article
Adult
Science
media_common.quotation_subject
Mothers
Neglect
Interviews as Topic
Social support
Mental Health and Psychiatry
Humans
Poverty
Sex trafficking
Stressor
Infant
Biology and Life Sciences
Mental health
Human Trafficking
Age Groups
Medical Risk Factors
People and Places
Population Groupings
Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 6, p e0252606 (2021)
PLoS ONE
Castaner, M M, Fowler, R, Landers, C, Cohen, L & Orjuela, M 2021, ' How trauma related to sex trafficking challenges parenting : Insights from Mexican and Central American survivors in the US ', PLoS ONE, vol. 16, no. 6, 0252606 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252606
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0252606
Popis: Sex trafficking, a form of human trafficking for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation, with a global prevalence of 4.5 million, has pervasive effects in the mental and physical health of survivors. However, little is known about the experiences and needs of Latinx migrants (the majority of sex trafficking victims in the US) after trafficking, particularly regarding parenting. This QUAL-quant study examines how 14 survivors of sex trafficking (mean age = 30) from Mexico and Central America encounter and respond to parenting experiences after escaping sexual exploitation. Combining a bio-ecological model of parenting with Zimmerman’s framework on human trafficking we identified how trauma related to sex trafficking can challenge parenting and how relational and contextual pre and post trafficking factors (dis)enable women to respond to such challenges. Psychological consequences of daily victimization primarily manifested in three ways: overprotective parenting in a world perceived to be unsafe, emotional withdraw when struggling with stress and mental health symptoms, and challenges building confidence as mothers. These experiences were accentuated by pre-trafficking experiences of neglect and abuse, forced separation from their older children, poverty post-trafficking, and migration-related stressors. Yet, finding meaning in the birth of their child, having social support, and faith, also enable mothers to cope with such challenges. We conclude that motherhood after surviving sex trafficking presents new challenges and opportunities in the path to recovery from trauma. Interventions at the policy, community and individual level are needed to support survivors of sex trafficking as they enter motherhood.
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