Preventing Child and Sexual Abuse The manchild is the most helpless compared to the little ones of all other species. To begin with, it has to depend for all its needs, locomotion, food, protection, etc., on others. Later, its thinking mind further complicates affairs. Unlike animals, whose sole purpose in life is survival, the child learns the necessity of satisfying many people. First it is the mother than the father too, then the school-teacher and later, friends, boyfriend /girlfriend, wife/ husband and the society in general, if it is to have a successful life. Sometimes it gets confused regarding the criteria for this satisfaction, because those in authority, or superior to it in the use of their faculties, i.e. the elders impress upon it a criteria that is not correct. In the west the criteria or sense of values, to which much importance was given previously, have declined. Honour piety, family ties, in fact all abstract values have today acquire a new meaning. Today they have all been, in varying degrees been sacrificed to the god of progress. With the U.S having made homosexuality and lesbianism legal and sex being accepted as the correct behaviour, the fabric of values is bound to be torn to shreds. Compassion and kindness, are some of the other values, that have been so sacrificed. Child abuse is the result of the general ineffectiveness of our value system. Its incidences are on the rise every year. In Ontario, Canada alone, 933 cases have been reported in 1988, as compared to 286 cases in 1980. In Quebec, there were 27940 case reported in 1988, as against 17145 cases in 1981-1982. There is a possibility that actually the cases of abuse are higher than reported. Obviously, as in the case of adults, blam... ... middle of paper ... ...ct Newyork. Academy of Sciences. Everson MD Hunter WM, Runyon DK, Edulsohn GA, coulter ML(1989), Maternal Support following Disclosure 0f Incest. AM J Orthopsychiatry, 59: 197-207. Gomez-Schwartz B, Hoeowitz J, Cardarelli A (1990), Child Sexual Abuse: The Initial Effects. New bury Park, CA : Sage. Goodyer IM, KolvinI, Gatzanis S (1987), the Impact of recent Undesireable Life Events on Psychiatric Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence. Br J Psychiatry 151: 1 - 142 Swantson H, Tbbut J., Oates RK, O' toole B (1996) Sexually Abused Children 5 years after presentation: a case-control study (abstract 25) J Paediatr child Health 32: A7 wyatt g, mickey M (1988) The Support by Parents and others as it mediates the effect of Childhood abuse. In: The lasting effects of Child sexual abuse, Wyatt G, Powell G, feds. Newburry Park, CA: Sage pp 211 - 226.
An estimated 39 million survivors of childhood sexual abuse exist in America today (Darness2Light, 2009a ). This figure continues to grow daily as perpetrators of this crime continue in this destructive path. The definition of child sexual abuse is the force, coercion, or cajoling of children into sexual activities by a dominant adult or adolescent. Sexual abuse of children includes touching (physical) sexually including: fondling; penetration (vaginal or anal using fingers, foreign objects or offenders organs; oral sex, or non-physical contact including: sexual comments; indecent exposures; masturbating in a child’s presence; child prostitution or child pornography (Child Welfare, 2009a).
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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.
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This paper outlines the consequences of child sexual abuse (CSA) based on the examination of results from multiple researches previously fulfilled concerning the psychological and physical impact of this crime, information of statistics, warning signs detected, victims’ performances, and emotional state. Sexual abuse causes severe trauma on child victims that will last for the course of their lives, therefore it is critical to identify and improve the therapeutic methods utilized to treat CSA survivors.
Child abuse is a serious issue in today's society. Many people have been victims of child abuse. There are three forms of child abuse: physical, emotional, and sexual. Many researchers believe that sexual abuse is the most detremental of the three. A middle-aged adult who is feeling depressed will probably not relate it back to his childhood, but maybe he should. The short-term effects of childhood sexual abuse have been proven valid, but now the question is, do the long-term effects of childhood sexual abuse affect middle-aged adults? Many contradicting views arise from the subject of childhood sexual abuse. Researchers and psychologists argue on this issue. Childhood sexual abuse has the potential to damage a child physically, emotionally, and behaviorally for the rest of his or her childhood, and the effects have been connected to lasting into middle-aged adulthood.
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More importantly, “60 percent of children who are sexually abused do not disclose and most are acquaintances but as many as 47 percent are family or extended family” (The Scope of, 2016). The prevalence of child sexual abuse is difficult to determine because it is often not reported; experts agree that the incidence is far greater than what is reported to authorities (Child Sexual Abuse, 2012). Startling statistics represent the depth of the issue. Globally, prevalence rates show that a range of 7-36% of women and 3-29% of men experience sexual abuse in childhood (The Scope of, 2016). “The U.S Department of Health and Human Services’ Children’s Bureau report child maltreatment 2010 found that 9.2% of victimized children were sexually assaulted” (Child Sexual Abuse,
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