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A 5 page paper discussing different aspects of childhood sexual abuse. Topics include how sexual abuse is defined, incidence, effects on the victim as a child and adolescent and how those effects carry through to adulthood. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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More often than not, in more than 70 percent of the cases, the victim knows the person committing the abuse. The U.S. Justice Department found that family member or acquaintances
committed 95 percent of all rapes of girls under the age of 12; 20 percent of this age group had been raped by their own father (Delgado, Lopez and Sebastiani,
1996). An exact figure regarding the incidence of sexual abuse of children and adolescents is not available. Different studies have reported more than 38 percent of all women were sexually
abused as children or adolescents. The ratio of abuse between girls and boys is about 2.5:1, more than twice as many girls are abused as boys. Since reports of sexual
abuse tend to be underreported, one must conclude the actual incidence of child and adolescent sexual abuse are significantly higher than these data suggest. There are at least 200,000 children
and adolescents sexually abused every year in this country (Green, 1993; Delgado, Lopez and Sebastiani, 1996). This essay will offer a very brief overview of specific aspects of child sexual
abuse. II. Definition Sexual abuse is defined as "a violation perpetrated by some with power over someone who is vulnerable. This violation takes a sexual form and may included
physical, verbal and emotional components" (Kidman, 1993; p. 9). Child sexual abuse is defined as "the engagement of a child in sexual activities for which the child is developmentally unprepared
and cannot give informed consent" (AMA, 1992). Child Protective Services in most states define child sexual abuse as "contact between an adult and a child less than 18 years
old in which the child is used for the sexual gratification of the adult." A parent of care-giver who allows such contact is considered to be sexually abusive even if
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