The site www.childluresprevention.com is one of many sites educating and providing resources to both parents and teachers. In the sites recent articles they list statistics that bring close to home a situation long overlooked. The percentage of children being affected by this is large (1 in 4 girls is sexually abused before the age of 14.) and worse, the number is only of those reported. Please look at the site's recent article....

Source: Hopper, J. (1998). Child Sexual Abuse: Statistics, Research, Resources. Boston, MA Boston University School of Medicine.

Reports and Statistics