Dismembered Families: Violations of the Right to Life and the Right to "Know"
The enforced disappearance of persons, in particular, has been cited by respondents as responsible for the painful disruption of familial life. Not only do familial roles change, as women are called to take on missing men's roles while continuing on with traditional women's roles within the household.
The chronic ambiguity of not knowing the whereabouts of missing loved ones also leaves deep psychological scars on family members, and divides some families along the lines of those who blame the victim, those who actively search, sometimes for years, for disappeared loved ones, translating such a search into organized political activism, and those who advocate within the family for a simple forgetting and “moving on.”One respondent, quite representative of many other families of the disappeared, commented on how “I am now very bad off because of so many sicknesses... because, due to my nerves I am very bad off and my head has become numb from so much thinking. My husband and my son... [are disappeared]... My head's all twisted from so much thinking about them.”
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