Child sexual abuse is an important public health issue. Unfortunately, despite the vast implementation of prevention initiatives, sexual abuse is still considered a relatively common experience in the lives of youth. Results from a meta-analysis of 217 studies published between 1980 and 2008, including close to ten million participants worldwide, suggest that 18% of women and 7.6% of men will experience sexual abuse before reaching the age of 18 (Stoltenborgh et al., 2011). Another meta-analysis obtained similar findings with rates of 8–31% for girls and 3–17% for boys (Barth et al., 2013). In analyzing data from the National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence, Gewirtz-Meydan and Finkelhor (2020) found rates of sexual abuse and assault for the sample of 0–17 years old to be 5.6% for girls and 1.9% for boys. Their results suggest that adolescence (14–17 years) is a critical period of vulnerability as close to half of abused youth (43.4%) experienced the first episode of sexual...
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Hébert, M., Langevin, R. (2023). Child Sexual Abuse. In: Levesque, R.J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Adolescence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32132-5_235-3
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