REPRODUKTIVNA PRINUDA NAD ŽENAMA OD STRANE PARTNERA MUŠKOG POLA - ISTRAŽIVANJE U REPUBLICI SRBIJI
REPRODUCTIVE COERCION OVER WOMEN FROM THEIR MALE PARTNERS - RESEARCH IN THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

Summary/Abstract: Reproductive coercion implies the behaviour which aims at influencing on the decicions women have made about their reproduction and it can be put into two groups - pregnancy coercion and birth control sabotage. The primary goal of this research is to point to the existence of reproductive coercion in Serbia. In reference to it, we are going to show the results of prevalence as well as the characteristics of reproductive control. Apart from it, the research focuses on the association between sociodemographic characteristics and reproductive control, and poses question of the statistic significance of the association between intimate partner violence and reproductive coercion. The data were obtained from the online questionnaire by means of „snowball effect“ method. The research was conducted on 196 female participants aged between 18 and 63 years. 37% of them have experienced the reproductive coercion. Reproductive coercion is more common among the participants who have only elementary school (80%), who are older than 44 (68.7%), who live in the places where number of inhabitants is not less than 10,000 nor more than 50,000 (54.5%), who are in emotionalsexual relationship (50%) and those who use contraceptives as a method of birth control (57.1%). Women who have confirmed having the experience of partner’s violence have also confirmed the experience of reproductive coercion (65.1%). The prevalent form of reproductive coercion is related to pregnancy, where participants were told not to use any of the contraceptives (20.1%). Removing condoms during sexual intercourse is the most dominant indicator of reproductive coercion within birth control sabotage (7.1%).

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