Child Sexual Abuse
Sexual assault on children is one of the most serious and fastest growing crimes that face the world today. Sexual abuse plagues children of all shapes, sizes, ethnicities, and backgrounds. Sexual abuse is one type of abuse that occurs millions of times every year across America. From one to two million children per year are victims of sexual abuse. Many of these cases usually go unreported-less than 50% by current estimates. Research indicates that as many as one out of every four children will be victims of sexual abuse before the age of 18. Very young children (even babies) as well as older teenagers are victimized. The abuse can range anywhere from making a sexual reference, to someone feeling uncomfortable. It is also sad to say that someone they know and trust will abuse almost all of these children: A relative, family friend, neighbor, babysitter, and teacher... the list goes on. Knowing all this you can see how Sexual abuse weighs greatly on a child's emotions. One of the more common types of sexual assault is incest. Incest is any sexual intercourse betweens persons so closely related that they are forbidden by law to marry, (mother, father, sister, brother, cousin) and is one of the most
horrific types of sexual abuse. There are many different causes of this type of abuse, the most common causes include: Parents having emotional problems, financial difficulties, limited parenting skills, drug/alcohol abuse, or the abuser may have been abused as a child. Parents who neglect or abuse their children generally have a very poor self-image. Sometimes they were denied love and praise during their own childhood. There may also have been a lack of support from relatives, friends, and the community. Combined with possible marital problems, and this may leave parents feeling very lonely, isolated, trapped and even depressed. The mother of the abused may also be a great source of guilt for them. Most of the time when the mother finds out about the abuse, she does not want to believe what she is hearing, so she passes the blame on to the child. Sometimes this abuse persists for many, many years because the mother does not want to face the fact that the abuse is real, and going one right under her nose; so she decides not to take any action to try and stop it. Another reason that a mother might pass the blame onto her children is because she fears her husband, and does not want to challenge him in any way so she just passes the husbands faults onto the child. She also might not say anything to her husband because she fears that she will lose him. She does not want to lose the support and security that her husband provides so she will just block out the abuse all together. These children are hit so hard by this abuse that sometimes they are una
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