What Women Should Know About Alcohol Abuse and the Sexual Exploitation of Females of all Ages (Part 3).
The aim of this paper is to raise our level of awareness on the egregious blight which alcohol abuse has afflicted upon the United States. Given the limitations of space, I shall divide the topic into two specific areas of alcohol abuse: 1) the sexual abuse of children, and 2) the sexual abuse of adolescents in the age group of 17-27.
Child sexual abuse is a type of maltreatment, violation, and exploitation that refers to the involvement of the child in sexual activity to provide sexual gratification or financial benefit to
the perpetrator. It includes contact for sexual purposes, molestation, statutory rape, prostitution,
pornography, exposure, incest, or other sexually exploitative activities.
The 2015 Child Maltreatment Report from The Children’s Bureau, published in January 2017 shows an increase in child abuse referrals from 3.6 million to 4 million. The number of children involved subsequently, increased from 6.6 million to 7.2 million. The report also indicates an increase in child death from abuse and neglect from 1,580 in 2014 to 1670 in 2015.
These figures are three times more than in the neighbouring country, Canada, and a shocking 11 times greater than Italy.
Almost five children die every day from physical and sexual abuse,1,5 and 80% of child fatalities involve at least one parent, predominantly mothers suffering from postnatal depression and care-taking frustration.2,4,5 72.9% of the child abuse victims die from neglect.
Unfortunately, one aspect of this transformation leads to sexual aggressiveness, so much so that the violation of members of his own family, not to mention strangers, becomes a pathway to the destruction of the lives of innocent children in his own family.
Women Health Open J. 2017; 3(3): e14-e17. doi: 10.17140/WHOJ-3-e011
