The Effect of Childhood Sexual Abuse during Adulthood

The Effect of Childhood Sexual Abuse during Adulthood

The effects of childhood sexual abuse carry on with the children forever. To what extent and to what effect does abuse have on children during adulthood? What are the main issues that adults have been abused suffer from in adulthood? Do they have more of a physical issue with preforming with their partner in the bedroom or do they have more of a mental block due to their trauma? The world had been asking these questions for far too long and we need answers on how helping the children of our world. The questions that have been stated have been answered through the two articles that will be summarized below.

Scholarly Article Summary

There have been a large number of studies that compared adults that had been sexually abused as well as adults that had not and what their differences were. What about the effects that child abuse has on Adults? This study purpose is to try and pinpoint the effects that psychosexual functioning in adults has on sexually abused children. During this study it got a closer look at how events of childhood sexual abuse effected psychosexual functioning, emotional, behavioral and evaluative after childhood. This article looks at the effect that childhood sexual abuse can have on an adult. It compares the different effects if the child tells someone when the attack happens or if they don’t what the long term effects could be. The questionnaire was given to find out which effect child abuse had on 165 different adults: fear of sex and guilt during sex, issues with physical touch, sexual arousal, and sexual satisfaction. First the characteristics of the adults have to be determined. They were looking and determine characteristics like age...

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...ng one side of the story when it comes to the effects of child abuse on children. There is so much more that we don’t understand about the ramifications that we should be aware of. Neither of these studies shows both sides of the issues, but in combination both show a better overall picture to both sides. In conclusion, I think that both articles were well written and got their points across. I do however think there is an overall issue that we don’t understand sexual abuse to children and how to prevent it.

References

Easton, S. D., Coohey, C., O'leary, P., Zhang, Y., & Hua, L. (2010). The Effect of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Psychosexual Functioning During Adulthook. J Fam Viol , 41-50.

Kezelman, C. (2014). Impact of Child Abuse. Retrieved from ASCA-Adults Suriving Child Abuse: http://www.asca.org.au/about/resources/impact-of-child-abuse.aspx