Child Sexual Abuse

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The paper explains how child sexual abuse is difficult to define in a clinical setting and it is not known how widely the crime occurs or how many children overall are affected. Repercussions of sexual violation of children are extremely varied in terms of impact and severity. Children who have been abused manifest symptomatic conditions that range from aggression towards peers to emotional disorders. The paper discusses how recovery from sexual abuse can be a long term process for the child and can take years or decades to accomplish even when no physical damage has occurred.

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"Child sexual abuse occurs when two or more persons participate in an act that can be described as sexual in nature and at least one of the persons is under the age of eighteen. Haugaard (2000) finds that it is extremely difficult to place an authoritative definition on child sexual abuse as many persons attach different expectations to this concept, wherein "there is no consensus about the definition of any of the words within the context of the term child sexual abuse" (p. 1037). This paper shall attempt to help clarify both the term itself and the repercussions that result from child sexual abuse. Definition of Child Sexual Abuse: The term "child sexual abuse" is ambiguous and this hampers directing research efforts to help reduce or eliminate this practice."

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