Child Sexual Abuse | Child Molestation Committed by Other Children Is Not a Widespread Problem

Judith Levine is the author of the forthcoming book In Search of Innocence: America’s Battle over Children’s Sexuality.

Summary: A group of influential psychotherapists has created a moral panic by exaggerating the problem of “children who molest.” Yet these therapists have produced no research indicating how so-called child sex offenders differ in sexual behavior from normal adolescents. Overzealous child protection workers, encouraged by the child welfare system to report any suspicion of child sexual abuse, created a nightmare for one family...

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