Perceptions of Intra-Familial Child Sexual Abuse and Intimate Parent-Child Interactions

Child extrafamilial sexual abuse: predicting parent and child functioning.

OBJECTIVE This study evaluated the emotional and behavioral adjustment of parents and children within 3 months and 1 year after the discovery of child extrafamilial sexual abuse. METHOD Ninety-two case parents (63 mothers, 29 fathers) and 56 children were compared to a nonclinical comparison group of 136 parents (74 mothers, 62 fathers) and 75 children. Parent adjustment was assessed using se...

Perceived Parental Deviance, Parent-Child Bonding, Child Abuse, and Child Sexual Aggression

Structural equation modeling was used to test a theoretical model o f the etiology of deviant sexual aggression by adolescents. The subjects were 117 juvenile male sexual offenders who had been referred from either criminal justice or social service agencies to a clinic that treated offenders. The tested theoretical model included several family factors: perceived parental deviance, child physi...

Child abuse in the eyes of the beholder: lay perceptions of child sexual and physical abuse.

OBJECTIVE The purpose was to explore the effects of victim and perpetrator gender, type of abuse, and victim-perpetrator relationship on university students' and non-students' perceptions of different kinds of child abuse. METHOD One hundred and ninety-nine participants (including university students and non-student adults) evaluated each of 24 vignettes (within-subjects design) describing an...

Maternal Perceptions Of And Responses To Child Sexual Abuse

BACKGROUND Several researches indicate that most child victims delay disclosing of sexual abuse for significant periods of time. There are numerous reasons as to why children are avoiding the disclosure of the abuse. The aim of this study was to determine how a mother's response to a child's allegations impacts the child's willingness to disclose sexual abuse. METHODS We conducted a retrospec...

Child Sexual Abuse