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Child Sexual Abuse is a Social Justice Issue
generationFIVE is unique amongst national anti-violence organizations in recognizing that our goal of ending child sexual abuse cannot be realized while other systems of oppression are allowed to continue. In fact, systems of oppression and child sexual abuse have an interdependent relationship: a power-over system that benefits some at the expense of others and uses violence, creates the conditions for child sexual abuse (i.e. gender inequality, class exploitation, racism, violence and threat for difference), while in turn the prevalence of child sexual abuse fosters behaviors (obedience to authority, silence, disempowerment, shame) that prevent people from organizing effectively to work for liberation, healing and change systemic forms of violence. |
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What is Child Sexual Abuse?
Child sexual abuse (CSA) is the overarching term for a huge, complicated, personally and socially damaging issue. At the base of child sexual abuse is the sexual use of a child by someone with more power. It is the use of a child to satisfy the offenders own needs for power or sex, disregarding the child’s needs and sending a message that the child’s wishes about his or her own body are unimportant. 1 in 3 girls and 1 in 6 boys are sexually abuse by the time they are 18 years old. |
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Defining Child Sexual Abuse Across Cultures
Across culture there are different variables that affect how CSA is defined and some that remain the same across culture. |
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The Reach and Impact of Child Sexual Abuse
Child sexual abuse affects boys and men, girls and women, and transgender youth and adults. While victims and offenders are obviously most directly affected, families and communities in which child sexual abuse happens are also deeply impacted when there is no adequate response to the issue. Based on the frequency with which it happens, and the sheer numbers, most of us are have been impacted by child sexual abuse in some way. |
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