Influence Of Proneness To Spousal Rape On Marital Stability Among Couples
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Influence Of Proneness To Spousal Rape On Marital Stability Among Couples
ABSTRACT
The study looked at how spousal rape affected marital stability in the Mainland Local Government Area of Lagos State. The study used a descriptive research survey to analyse respondents’ opinions.
The questionnaire was utilised to gather important data for this investigation. This study chose 120 (one hundred and twenty) individuals to reflect the overall population. Four null hypotheses were evaluated, and the following findings emerged at the conclusion of the data analysis:
1. Hypothesis one revealed that spousal rape had a considerable impact on marital stability in couples.
2. Hypothesis two revealed that there is no substantial impact of socioeconomic position on spousal rape among spouses.
3. Hypothesis three revealed that religious spousal rape had a major impact on marriage stability.
4. Hypothesis four revealed that spousal rape had a considerable ethnic impact on marriage stability in couples.
Based on the findings, it is reasonable to conclude that spousal rape has an impact on marital stability in couples. It could also be stated that religion, ethnicity, and socioeconomic level are major factors influencing marriage stability.
Based on the findings, it is recommended that for marriages to operate successfully, couples avoid doing activities that could lead to marital problems, separation, or divorce.
Rape should not be discussed among couples because it has the potential to undermine the marital bond between a man and a woman in a conjugal union known as marriage. Rape is horrible, and no rational human being, male or woman, should consider or milk the thought of engaging in it.
Chapter one
1.1 Introduction/Background for the Study
When people hear the word ‘rape’, they frequently envision a stranger with a knife rushing out of the bushes at night and forcing a lady to participate in sexual intercourse. It is not easy to define rape.
Definitions arise from different sources, including the law, the media, scholarship, and political engagement. Even within these fields, definitions differ (Arsworth, 2004). According to Mundidi (2005), rape is a crime that affects all parts of society, both the victims and those closest to them.
Rape, according to him, is the threat or use of force to compel one person to engage in a sexual act with another. It refers to any sexual intercourse with another person that is compelled or threatened to be forced. It is sexual intercourse with a person who is unable to provide consent.
Marital breakup, while not universal, has grown prevalent in many societies. Desertions, separations, and even divorce have increased dramatically in Nigeria over the last few decades.
The number of children affected by the disturbance had steadily increased (Social Welfare Record and Data, 2000). It is important to remember that in a marriage relationship, two distinct personalities interact, two rather varied value and need systems confront one other, and two distinct behavioural systems exist (Hassan and Sotonade, 1993).
Sotonade (2001) found that the bigger the difference between individual qualities in marriage, the less stable the marital dyad is likely to be. Whether the differences between the partners are due to age, socioeconomic status, education, sexual compatibility, or other factors, they predict a lower level of dyadic adjustment prior to marriage and greater instability in the marital relationship itself.
According to Zartman (2003), marital conflict is an unavoidable and sometimes beneficial aspect of personal partnerships. Interpersonal partnerships necessitate a continuous process of negotiation and exchange that allows spouses to maximise their own outcomes while maintaining an equilibrium that benefits both spouses.
Hassan (2002) and Adeleke (2004) found that sexual activity strengthens marital unions, whereas sexual activity between a man and his wife done forcibly and without consent leads to conflict, separation, and divorce among married couples.
In many cultures, the stigma associated with rape is particularly harmful to the victims. In some cultures, women are driven to suicide or murdered by family members in order to remove the family’s shame (Heise et al, 2004).
Many factors contribute to marital stability or instability. In-law disruption, religion, socioeconomic level, communication, sexual compatibility, and other factors all contribute to the stability of marriages.
Spousal rape is also a contributing factor to marital instability. Forceful sexual intercourse can occur because many couples are not sexually compatible and do not communicate sexually at the same frequency, which increases the risk of marital rape.
According to Ibegbu (2004), sex without the consent of the spouse, particularly the woman, has led to marital strife, separation, and divorce among married couples.
He believes that in some houses, couples do not have excellent relationships, and that a lack of adequate sexual communication leads to sex abuse.
Historically, in English common law, Arsworth (2004) defined rape as a male engaging in sexual intercourse with a woman other than his wife against her will and without her consent, using or threatening force. Today, legal definitions of rape vary greatly among nations.
Rape victims frequently experience depression, feelings of betrayal and humiliation, trust and intimacy issues, guilt, anxiety, fears, anger, physical problems, sexual difficulties, and low self-esteem in many aspects of their lives (Muechlenhard; Goggins; Jones; and Satterfield, 1991; Shapiro and Schwarz, 1997).
Rape also frequently causes bodily harm to the victim or results in medical complications (RAINN, 2001; Tjaden and Thoennes, 2000). Rape victims, for example, are at risk of contracting sexually transmitted illnesses from their attackers. Female sufferers may also get pregnant (Hiese et al., 1994).
Rape’s consequences have been conceptualised as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which focusses on the victim repeatedly re-experiencing the rape (e.g., in dreams or flashbacks); feeling numb and attempting to avoid stimuli associated with the rape; and experiencing increased physiological arousal (e.g., difficulty sleeping or concentrating, outbursts of anger, or an exaggerated startle response).
This, in any case, sets back the marriage. Many marriages have fallen apart as a result of sexual abuse or rape. According to Adamson (2005), men are more likely to rape their spouses. Spousal rape is common among couples who are sexually incompatible and have a partner who is addicted to drugs or is inebriated.
Male and female rape victims face similar repercussions (Mezey and King, 2005). Although both genders may struggle to seek assistance from crisis intervention services or the police, males may face more challenges because being a rape victim contradicts the male archetype.
Gay and lesbian rape victims may have a more difficult time accessing assistance from social service agencies, which are sometimes not advertised or tailored to gay and lesbian clients (Waterman, 2004; Dawson and Bologna, 2006).
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