Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : Many women found themselves mothers of children born as a result of wartime rape during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. These survivors of the genocide were raped, tortured, and sometimes left for dead by the perpetrators. They afterwards found themselves with unwanted children the very existence of whom often resulted in rejection by the family, resulting in isolation from the community. The children themselves, taken to be the children of the perpetrators, could not benefit from the love and care of a family. Likewise, their mothers were declined the affective support of the social group and the financial support awarded to genocide's children survivors. We went to meet these mothers and the children to find out what these stigmatized families had become twenty years after the massacres. The main goal of the study was to analyze both the fragilities and the psychological and relational resources from which these families currently benefit so as understand the means and the conditions necessary to help the children and their mothers to stand up and rebuild themselves.