The Seduction of Children: Empowering Parents and Teachers to Protect Children from Child Sexual Abuse

354 Pages·2004·1.27 MB·English

by  Christiane Sanderson

The Seduction of Children
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The Seduction of Children
Empowering Parents and Teachers to Protect
Children from Child Sexual Abuse
Christiane Sanderson
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
London and Philadelphia
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Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 9
Introduction 11
Chapter 1. What is Child Sexual Abuse? 31
Chapter 2. The Development of Children’s Sexuality 55
Chapter 3. Child Sexual Abusers 81
Chapter 4. Child Sexual Abuse and the Internet 128
Chapter 5. The Grooming of Children 165
Chapter 6. The Impact of Child Sexual Abuse on the Child 191
Chapter 7. The Signs and Symptoms of Child Sexual Abuse 222
Chapter 8. Understanding the Sexually Abused Child 249
Chapter 9. Protecting Children from Child Sexual Abuse
in the Community 272
Chapter 10. The Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse 303
APPENDIX1.USEFULWEBSITES 331
APPENDIX2.GLOSSARYOFINTERNETTERMS 336
REFERENCES 340
SUBJECTINDEX 346
AUTHORINDEX 352
Listof tables
Table 1.1 Child prostitution worldwide 41
Table 2.1 Summary of sexual development and sexual behaviour
in pre-school age children, 0–4 years of age 68
Table 2.2 Summary of sexual development and sexual behaviour
in school age children, 5–12 years old 70
Table 2.3 Summary of sexual development and sexual behaviour
in adolescents/teenagers, 13–16 years old 72
Table 2.4 Summary of parental reactions to children’s sexual
expression and sexual behaviour 74
Table 3.1 Preconditions for sexual abuse 94
Table 3.2 Summary of typology of paedophiles, adapted from
Wyre (1987) 102
Table 3.2 Predisposing factors in adolescents who sexually abuse
children 122
Table 4.1 A typology of paedophile picture collections 134
Table 6.1 Traumagenic dynamics of the impact of child sexual
abuse 217
Table 8.1 Common examples of paedophiles’ manipulation
of children 255
Listof Figures
Figure 3.1 Sexual arousal cycle 86
Figure 3.2 Cycle of sexual offending 87
Figure 3.3 The continuous cycle 88
Figure 3.4 The inhibited cycle 88
Figure 3.5 The short circuit cycle 89
Figure 3.6 The spiral of abuse 90
Figure 6.1 Fear and anxiety, along with the child’s inability to
control events, lead to two distinct outcomes 220