Education Of Sexual Abuse

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Sexual abuse has been a huge trend in violent victimization. Through out the last decade there has been extensive research on how and what sexual abuse is and how sexual abuse affects the minds of children. Child sexual abuse does not have one definite definition and can cause many disorders psychologically within the child’s mind. Through education of what sexual abuse is, what disorders the post-victimization causes, and how to prevent it, child sexual abuse cases will be lowered and parents and children will become more powerful with the knowledge that will encourage them to stand up to their perpetrator.
Violence on children has become a societal problem. A very particular form of violence is child sexual abuse. According to the World Health Organization “violence prevention is a public health priority” (MWWR). When sexual abuse has been brought into a conversation, most people automatically think of the common definition of child sexual abuse, which is the unlawful sexual contact between adult and child. The National Center of Child Abuse and Neglect, child abuse consists of contact or interaction adult and child, although the perpetrator does not need to be above the age of eighteen, all the perpetrators have to be is older than the victim is, and in a position of power (Gordon, McConnell, Schroeder). Child sexual abuse can take many forms and does not have to be the unlawful sexual contact by a stranger, most people come to think of, and sexual abuse can be a gentle seduction by a trusted relative, to a violent rape by a stranger (Maltz). Sexual abuse also does not need to be just rape; it can be being forced to pose for pornographic pictures, being prematurely exposed to pornography and being sexually harassed over the phone and the internet (Maltz). Sexual abuse can take many forms and be in many people. Knowing whether or not a person is a perpetrator, is what parents need to know to keep their child safe, and for the...