Child Sexual Abuse | The Prevalence of Child Sexual Abuse: An Overview
Cheryl Wetzstein is a journalist for the Washington Times.
Summary: Many U.S. citizens favor locking up child molesters and keeping them in jail forever. However, attempting to identify dangerous pedophiles presents a dilemma. Child molesters suffer a diversity of sexual disorders that are difficult to clinically diagnose, making it nearly impossible for psychiatrists to determine which abusers will commit repeat offenses. Since the mid-1980s efforts have been made to collect statistics on the extent of child abuse, but the data suffer from both...
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