By abuse, most will mean the sexual abuse of their child. Childhood sexual abuse is not a rare occurrence. Most statistics state that one in three girls will be sexually abused before their twelfth birthday and one in five boys.
Many people are under the misconception that sexual abuse only involves intercourse.
This is NOT true. Sexual abuse can be touching, looking, forcing the child to touch or look at an adult and pornographic pictures or movies being taken or forced to watch. Other types of abuse include oral or anal sex and even sexually suggestive remarks. So many times a survivor who tells of the abuse later in life will be criticized for not telling as a child when in actual fact they did tell. They just didn t verbalize it or if they did, no one listened.