Sexual Abuse: Can the Curse be Broken

Abstract

From the 70's, the topic of sexual abuse of children and their consequences, gains a new dimension, being seen as a serious social problem, both by scholars and the general population. From a psychodynamic theoretical order, investigate, this paper, some basic points about the subject matter, also providing data that will help in identifying cases of abuse child sex. Through extensive research and theoretical literature, we dealt with more specifically, the helplessness, incest, and strategies of sexual abuse children, as well as long-term effects of this particular type of victimization. In a society where child sexual abuse challenges cultural taboos and psychic becomes necessary to study and clarify the background to this dynamic phenomenon in order to break the conspiracy of silence that often surrounds it.

Contents

Abstract2

Thesis Statement5

Introduction5

Discussion6

Affects of Sexual Abuse Trauma on Child's Behavior9

Overly submissive behavior9

Active or Aggressive behavior9

Hint of Sexual activity9

Persistent sexual play, with exaggerated and inappropriate pairs, with yourself or with toys and behavior sexually aggressive with other10

Detailed understanding and inappropriate for the age of about sexual behavior10

Getting to school early and leaving late, with little or no absence11

Poor relationship with peers, inability to friendships and lack of participation in school activities / social11

Lack of confidence, particularly important in people12

Changes in sleep12

Suicidal attempts13

Conclusion13

References15

Annotated Bibliography17

Thesis Statement

“Sexual abuse causes negative effects on the mind of those children who experience it”

Introduction

According to the WHO definition of "Sexual abuse a child is turning the child in sexual activity, which it is not able to fully understand and give her informed consent and / or which are not developmentally mature and cannot agree on a legally valid manner and / or which is incompatible with the legal standards of a society. With the use of sex is what happens when such activity occurs between a child and an adult or a child and another child, if these people because of their age or stage of development are in relationships of care, relationships, power. The aim of this activity is to meet the needs of another person.

Sexual violence against children occurs in all social groups and across the class structure. Among the wealthy violence against children is hidden to protect the family, the offender or child effects stigmatizing. Abuse among the poor remains barely visible because lower-class families typically do not expect help from the police or social institutions and do not report violence (McDaniel, 2001). The legal system, on the other hand, neither is this population, being perceived as too distant. Sexual abuse appears as a particular form of violence against children, with regard to the involvement in this activity sex that violate social taboos and family roles, and which are not capable of giving consent mature (Boire, 1993). Sexual abuse of children is characterized as a child or adolescent is used for sexual gratification by an adult or older adolescent, through the use of physical violence, coercion or breach of trust. Often the abuser is a family member or responsible for a child, or someone she knows, ...