Information and facts for both sexes need to be readily available and schools should cover both sexes whenever discussing abuse. Sexual abuse of boys occurs in all race, socio-economic classes, and religions. Boys who are abused are more likely than girls to be abused by middle-class family members. Boys are more likely than girls to be from poorer families when the abuse is from someone outside of the family. The average age for the onset of sexual abuse in boys usually falls between eight and twelve. 5.
Boys are four times more likely to be abused outside of the family than girls.
Boys are less likely to be the only abused child in the home. Men make up the largest majority of perpetrators of child sexual abuse for both boys and girls. When the perpetrator is female, boys are 10 times more likely to be abused than girls. Some studies even go so far as to report 1 in 3 incidents of sexual abuse against boys are done by female abusers. The largest number of abusers for boys is usually in a caretaker role to the child.