Men scored about ten times higher than women in combat, atrocity, threat and malevolence. Journal of Abnormal Psych. 1995 Feb 104(1)184. Malevolence, threats and combat continue when the soldier returns home. The family unit is destroyed by war.
Women "experience traumatic events that are intrinsically more devastating in type and severity." Journal of Clinical Psychology 1997 58:5. There is a community with an extraordinary support system for rape survivors in South Carolina. There, about 84% of rapes go unreported to police. Elsewhere, even fewer are reported.
More than 70% of PTSD veterans and their partners report clinically significant relationship distress. Also, 30% of non-PTSD vets report relational distress. American Journal of Psych. 1997 May154(5)722; Feb 154(2)178; Journal of Traumatic Stress 1998 Jan 11(1)87. That is part of the cost of foreign war.
On top of that, soldiers have to live with the fact that they consented to commit violence
against strangers.
They may feel responsible for the social injustice they created.
Guilt and PTSD severity were both correlated with atrocity experience.
Kirby Feldman Bechkham, Duke U; Journal of Traumatic Stress 1998 Oct 11(4)777
Restorative justice legislation keeps war from killing American families.
It helps survivors heal from PTSD, hostility, psychosis and paranoia.
It prevents the spread of violence into all neighborhoods.
It restores a sense of justice in all Americans.
It provides us all with security at home.
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