INTRODUCTION Recurrent exposure to childhood sexual abuse (CSA) seems to be higher among victims of sexual abuse. In this sense, experiences related to sexual violence can perpetuate within the family context itself in various ways. Here, we investigate the association between being exposed to CSA and having a child victim of sexual abuse. METHOD We used a sample with 123 mothers, who were di...

This study examined the prevalence of child sexual abuse in a multi-stage stratified probability sample of Afro-American and white-American women, 18 to 36 years of age, in Los Angeles County. The sample ranged in demographic characteristics by age, marital status, education and the presence of children. Of the total sample of 248 women, 154 (62%) reported at least one incident of sexual abuse ...

Several child sexual abuse (CSA) prevention efforts target parents and guardians, given that they are in a unique position to educate and protect their children from sexual victimization. This literature review examines research on prevention efforts targeting parents to support or reject three hypotheses: (1) Prevention efforts intended for parents increase their knowledge of CSA, (2) such pre...

Child sexual abuse prevention programs designed to teach children ways to recognize, resist, and report sexual abuse have proliferated in the past five years. The authors evaluate one such program to find out what children know before instruction, if they learn how to prevent sexual abuse, and how they and their parents and professionals who work with children react to such a program.

Introduction: Child abuse has been defined as allowing others to cause physical, emotional, and sexual harm, and also physical and emotional pain to a child. The present study was a report on a case of physical and sexual child abuse accompanied by traumatic brain injury (TBI) referred to an emergency department.Case Presentation: A 4-year-old child was rushed into an emergency department...

BACKGROUND To investigate the prevalence of child sex tourism (CST) in a large German community sample, and to compare those who made use of CST with other child sexual abusers regarding established characteristics and risk factors for child sexual abuse. METHODS Adult German men were recruited through a German market research panel and questioned by means of an anonymous online survey. Group...

BACKGROUND Child abuse is an issue that has many physical and psychological consequences. OBJECTIVES This study was designed and conducted to investigate the current situation regarding child abuse, which can be used as a guideline for planning future interventions. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a descriptive, analytic cross-sectional study on 700 Yazd secondary school students in 2013, us...

This paper reviews briefly epidemiological and clinical data on prevalence and incidence of child-sexual-abuse. Individual symptoms and family factors of intra-familial child sexual abuse are described and some possible psychopathological factors and vulnerability factors are listed. Two different forms of parasuicide and self-mutilating behaviour are distinguished and complicating factors of s...