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Preventing Child Sexual Abuse : Sharing title: the Responsibility Child, Youth, and Family Services author: Wurtele, Sandy K.; Miller-Perrin, Cindy L. publisher: University of Nebraska Press isbn10 | asin: 0803297505 print isbn13: 9780803297500 ebook isbn13: 9780585003627 language: English Child sexual abuse--United States, Child subject sexual abuse--United States--Prevention. publication date: 1992 lcc: HQ72.U53W87 1992eb ddc: 362.7/6 Child sexual abuse--United States, Child subject: sexual abuse--United States--Prevention. Page ii Child, Youth, and Family Services General Editors Gary B. Melton University of NebraskaLincoln Carolyn Stineman Schroeder University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Editorial Board Jane Close Conoley University of NebraskaLincoln Felton Earls Harvard University James Gallagher University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Paul Lerman Rutgers University Eli Newberger Harvard Medical School Ross Parke University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign N. Dickon Reppucci University of Virginia Michael C. Roberts University of Alabama Page iii Preventing Child Sexual Abuse Sharing the Responsibility Sandy K. Wurtele and Cindy L. Miller-Perrin University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London Page iv Copyright © 1992 by the University of Nebraska Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First paperback printing: 1993 Most recent printing indicated by the last digit below: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wurtele, Sandy K. (Sandy Kay), 1955 Preventing child sexual abuse: sharing the responsibility/Sandy K. Wurtele and Cindy L. Miller- Perrin. P. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. 0-8032-9750-5 (pa) ISBN 0-8032-4753-2 (cl) ISBN 1. Child molesting United States. 2. Child molesting Prevention United States. I. Miller-Perrin, Cindy L. (Cindy Lou), 1962 II. Title. 72. 53 87 1992 362.7'6 20 92-3600 HQ U W DC CIP Second cloth printing: 1993 ¥ Page v Contents List of Tables vi Foreword vii Preface xi 1 Understanding Child Sexual Abuse: Implications for 1 Prevention 2 Child-Focused Prevention Programs: A Partial 54 Solution 3 Parents as Partners in Prevention 91 4 The Roles and Responsibilities of Professionals 134 5 The Roles of Policymakers, Researchers, and the 179 General Public Concluding Remarks 204 References 213 Author Index, 267 Subject Index, 280 Page vi Tables 1 Large-Scale U.S. Prevalence Studies 9 2 Possible Risk and Protective Factors Associated With 48 Child Sexual Abuse 3 Reasons Endorsed by Parents for Not Discussing 94 Child Sexual Abuse 4 Behavioral, Emotional, and Physical Indicators of 105 Sexual Abuse According to Level of Development 5 Age-Appropriate Sexual Knowledge 110 6 Age-Appropriate Sexual Behavior 113 7 Examples of Appropriate and Inappropriate Parental 127 Responses to Disclosure 8 Operational Definition of Child Sexual Abuse 148 9 National Legislation on Mandatory Reporting of 162 Child Sexual Abuse 10 National Legislation Related to Child Sexual Abuse 167 Reporting Page vii Foreword The Board urges each citizen to recognize that a serious emergency related to the maltreatment of children exists within American society and to join with all other citizens in resolving that its continued existence is intolerable. (1990, 1) U.S. ADVISORY BOARD ON CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT RECOMMENDATION In its first report, the U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect ( , 1990), of which I am a member, surveyed the state of ABCAN child protection in the United States and declared it to be in a state of emergency. rested its declaration on three broad findings. First, ABCAN the stunning magnitude of the problemnow more than 2.5 million reports of suspected cases per year in the United Statesis sufficient in itself to warrant a declaration of national emergency. More than doubling in the 1980s, the number of reports has risen at a breathtaking rate. Second, the child protection system has been unable to cope with the increasing number and complexity of cases. Regardless of the component of the system that is assessed, it is "overwhelmed, it is on the verge of collapse, and if and when it does [collapse], children will be even more seriously at risk than they are now, thus causing countless additional American children to suffer irreparable harm" ( , 1990, p.43, emphasis in the original). Third, ABCAN the costs resulting from the problem of child maltreatment are enormous. Billions of dollars are being spent on a failing child protection system, and probably billions more are being spent in an attempt to respond to the consequences of child maltreatment.
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