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Wednesday, May 07, 2014

The New Silence: family breakdown and child sexual abuse

A number of studies have found that children who do not live with both biological parents are more likely to be sexually abused, compared to children who live in intact families. "Step and single-parent families accounted for only one-third (33%) of all children in the United States but accounted for more than two-thirds (66.8%) of all children who were sexually abused."

This publication suggests that Australia run a campaign similar to those for anti-smoking and anti-drink driving to educate citizens, promote certain values, and change attitudes and behaviours. Author Jeremy Sammut states "A public information campaign that advertised the risks to children posed by family breakdown would end the new silence that hides the culturally unfashionable truth about the family."

Read this full report by Jeremy Sammut from the Centre for. Independent Studies. (Issue Analysis 142)
The New Silence: family breakdown and child sexual abuse



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