In: Psychology
Child sexual abuse exploits and degrades children and can cause serious damage to cognitive, social, and emotional development of a child. As a society, we have a collective responsibility to prevent child sexual abuse. To accomplish this, we must initiate and support services and policies that enhance children’s development, health and safety and we must advocate for policies and programs to help meet the basic needs of children and families. We must also promote research, training, and public education to strengthen protective factors that buffer risk factors for sexual abuse while also directly addressing those risk factors.
• Raising awareness of the unacceptability of child sexual
abuse, and promoting the notion that stopping child sexual abuse is
everyone’s responsibility.
• Educating the public, especially policymakers, about the true
nature of child sexual abuse.
• Rigorously evaluating and strengthening existing child sexual
abuse prevention programs.
• Shifting the prevention of child sexual abuse from children to
adults
• Exploring, evaluating, and strengthening new approaches to
preventing child sexual abuse
• Making mental health services available to all those affected by
child sexual abuse
I don't think consensual sex is sexual abuse if both are adult as they both have enough mature to think about that. And why we think only boys are guilty. They both come together and then sex happen. So , consensual sex is not a sexual abuse.