Chronic painful urination, constipation 3. Behaviors associated with sexual abuse 1. sexualized activity with peers, animals, or objects 2. Female abuse 1. Pedophiles show a predilection for boys, theory suggests that the number of males who are sexually abused is higher. Age ranges in sexual abuse 15 million women in the US have been involved in a incestuous relationship.
Females are more often perpetrators in child-care settings, including baby sitting.
Abuse by females may be higher than reported due to younger children confusing sexual abuse with normal hygiene care and adolescent males may not be trained to recognize sexual activity with an older female as a form of abuse. 4. sexual abuse by stepfathers is 5 times higher than among natural fathers, the most common age for onset of abuse is age 10 5. Commonly the mother is unavailable to the father and is usually chronically ill or depressed. The mother is commonly the victim of child abuse when young. Incestuous fathers, a profile 1.