How Can We Stop Sexual and Physical Abuse in This Country?

Will you consider a father who touches his daughter in her private area to be sexual abuse? There are fifty two percent cases of children and teenagers reported last year of spousal violent in their home. About fifty eight percent of child sexual offenders who were in home males, also physically abuse their female partners. The children who are sexually abused in their home should undergo some kind of therapy. Here are some safety plans for sexually abuse children need to incorporate screening for family violence and safety plans for both parents and siblings of child victims, when appropriate.

Monica Applewhite, Ph.D., internationally well known expert on child sex abuse, has done extensive research and found that in the late 1800’, scientists called a proposal that suggested women with emotional disturbance might have been seduced in childhood a “scientific fairly tale”. In the 1950’s doctors were verbalizing suspicion that children were deliberately abused and the “Battered child syndrome” was born. About the same time, the FBI brought “Stronger Danger into existence. This of course, did not comprehend the fact that most sex abuse is inflicted on a child by someone in the family or probably known by family member.  

In 1970’s child welfare departments were still tied to the Humane Security and the Society for the prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Is was stated in the news paper that sexual abuse in the family is one of the most perplexing and also confusing problems families are facing today. It is very difficult to fully assess the extent of the problem; the amount of families affected by this phenomenon is staggering. One out of four girls and one of five boys are sexually abused before they reach the age of 18. Majority of these children was abuse by a friend they know, or perhaps a family member. Child abuse is very common on low income families.

Child sex abuse is a very painful traumatic family secret that affects the entire family. There are therapies for the families who are impacted by sexual abuse may help families to heal from abuse, and also create tools to assure that there won’t be any further abuse in the family, even for generations to come. Sexual abuse can be: any sexual contact between child and adults, such as: touching a child with intention of sexual arousing, fondling of the genitals or the body in a sexual manner. There may be long-term negative effects to the child sexual abuse for most victims; it can be eating disorders, substance abuse disorders sexual but the most common consequences: guilt, shame, revictimization, and diminished self-esteem.

In the past there have been at least two broad approaches of treatment of child sexual abuse: victim advocacy/child welfare approach and the family-system model. There are comprehensive program that can treat the entire family and include the legal and social justice system as well. A successful treatment that is systemic and also contextual in child sexual abuse will share similar philosophies and therapeutic goals.