Dynamics Of Abuse In Different Groups Of Children

[hsidaros]

Q: The dynamics of abuse refers to the forces or motivations behind the act of abuse and the ways in which indicators may be observed or determined at a later time.
Describe in your own words how the dynamics of abuse may applied to the following groups of children:
a) Age
b) Disability or Disadvantagedlearners
c) Gender
d) Sexuality
e) Culture

my answer is:
a) Age
• A number of factors that make individual young children vulnerable to sexual abuse like, the unaccompanied children, children in foster care, adopted children, stepchildren. And in the majority of cases the
- perpetrator is typically a known and trusted caregiver.
- Physical force/violence is very rarely used; rather the perpetrator tries to 
manipulate the child’s trust and hide the abuse.
• In the majority of cases, young children do not disclose abuse immediately following the event. The reluctance to disclose abuse tends to stem from a fear of the perpetrator; the perpetrator may have made threats, such as “If you tell anyone I will kill you/ kill your mother”.



b) DisabilityorDisadvantagedlearners
people with disabilities get abused, sometimes at the hands of people who help or care for them. Care providers and personal assistants, including family members and service providers (paid or unpaid) can be abusive.
Below are some of the factors that could possibly expose the disiabled to be in risk of getting abused .
▪ Disabled people may not be believed or may have difficulty telling someone they are being abused because of their disability.
▪ Services and resources may not meet their needs.
▪ Lack of choice of providers so that someone who is not qualified is used.

c) Gender
• Sexual violence is a reality for millions of people worldwide, and for women and girls in particular. Research indicates that the vast majority of victims of sexual violence are female, most perpetrators are male, and that most victims know their attacker. This does not, however, negate that fact that sexual violence against men and boys is also widespread.
• Work with sexual offenders has confirmed that the motivating factor for sexual violence is not sexual desire. Although sexuality and aggression are involved in all forms of sexual violence, sex is merely the medium used to express various types of non-sexual feelings such as anger and hostility towards women, as well as a need to control, dominate and assert power over them.

d) Sexuality
There is a growing body of research on sexualized behaviour in children and its relationship to sexual abuse. Although the majority of sexually abused children do not engage in sexualized behaviour, the presence of inappropriate sexual behaviour may be an indicator of sexual abuse.
Sexualized behaviour in children could be defined as problematic when:
• it occurs at a greater frequency or at a much earlier stage than would be developmentally appropriate (e.g. a 10 year-old boy versus a 2 year-old boy playing with his penis in public, or a 6 year-old girl masturbating repeatedly 
in school); 

• it interferes with the child’s development (e.g. a child learning to use sexual 
behaviours as a way of engaging with other people); 

• it is accompanied by the use of coercion, intimidation or force (e.g. one 4 
year-old forcing another to engage in mutual fondling of the genitals or an 
imitation of intercourse); 

• it is associated with emotional distress (e.g. eating or sleeping disturbances, 
aggressive or withdrawn behaviours); 

• it reoccurs in secrecy after intervention by caregivers.

e) Culture
One of the good examples that shows the abuse of children…. that it exsist mainly in poor communities where the lack of education and health awarness strongly exsist, like for instance, in third world countries, the poverty and latenessn of marriage age, and the strong belief in false concepts like differentiating between sexes, and that's of course expose more chidlren in getting abused . 


Pleas if anyone can give me an advice\opinion
thank you in advance

[Lorina]

I think you have added some clear points and you have added detailed findings on each!

,
Lorina

[hsidaros]

Thank you so much Lorina

[zuzkam]

I used this link and quoted their statistics, how manty times more are for example children with disability vulnarable to abuse etc. http://www.asca.org.au/WHAT-WE-DO/Resou ... hild-abuse