If a system’s response to a child’s sexual abuse is to reject their trauma untreated at the best or shut them up at worst, where must their healing begin? When young children are hurt and sexualized, they may learn secrecy, shame, and silence that sex amounts to self-worth, their boundaries are not relevant, nobody can be trusted or reliable and the world is not safe at all. Children who are sexually abused face tremendous trauma. The effects of child sexual abuse can be lifelong and affect the victim’s psychological health. Child sexual abuse is all too common, and cuts across all gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic boundaries.Įven if a child is subjected to sexual abuse for only five minutes, psychological harm and damage are endured for a lifetime. Sexual abuse can be compelled or manipulated by numerous means, from nurturing trust and a loving relationship to bestowing provisionson a child or young person’s needs or wants, to using power or force.
Today, I believe that what happened to me is a blessing in disguise, where I can reach out to many and relate to them and their pain.Ĭhild sexual abuse can include child pornography, sexual exposure/voyeurism, sexual exploitation, child prostitution, exhibitionism, sexual jokes, penetration, invasive hygienic practices, genital contact, and beyond-concealed psychological and sexual fixations with a child. Speaking out might!Therapy eased meto put things in perspective. I was usually a very private person but, being silent will not keep children safe or prevent these bizarre things from happening. If only I hadn’t experienced all of that as a child, life would have been different, I would keep telling myself.Īs a child abuse survivor,it took me a long time to decide to go public when I wrote my first book. When I became older, I always remembered the abuse as being my fault and felt like I deserved it since I assumed I must have permitted it to happen. I never felt secure or safe as a victim of child sexual abuse. In child sexual abuse cases, the target of sexual violence is a Child.
Child sexual abuse, as with other forms of sexual violence, is the use of sex to exercise control over and impose harm upon another. Yet, in our country – tens of thousands of children are sexually assaulted every year.
No one likes to converse about child sexual abuse.
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