Child sexual abuse Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Global=== Based on [[Self-report study|self-disclosure data]], a 2011 [[meta-analysis]] of 217 studies estimated a global prevalence of 12.7%β18% for girls and 7.6% for boys. The rates of self-disclosed abuse for specific continents were as follows:<ref name="stolt">{{cite journal |author1=Stoltenborgh, M. |author2=van IJzendoorn, M. H. |author3=Euser, E. M. |author4= Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J. |name-list-style=amp | year = 2011 | title = A global perspective on child sexual abuse: meta-analysis of prevalence around the world | journal = Child Maltreatment | volume = 16 | issue = 2 | pages = 79β101 | doi = 10.1177/1077559511403920|pmid=21511741 |s2cid=30813632 }}</ref> {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Region ! Girls ! Boys |- | Africa |20.2% |19.3% |- | Asia |11.3% |4.1% |- | Australia |21.5% |7.5% |- | Europe |13.5% |5.6% |- | South America |13.4% |13.8% |- | US/Canada |20.1% |8% |} A 2009 meta-analysis of 65 studies from 22 countries found a global prevalence of 19.7% for females and 7.9% for males. In that analysis, Africa had the highest prevalence rate of child sexual abuse (34.4%), primarily because of high rates in South Africa; Europe showed the lowest prevalence rate (9.2%); and America and Asia had prevalence rates between 10.1% and 23.9%.<ref name="pereda">{{cite journal |author1=Pereda, N. |author2=Guilera, G. |author3=Forns, M. |author4=GΓ³mez-Benito, J. |name-list-style=amp |year=2009 |title=The prevalence of child sexual abuse in community and student samples: A meta-analysis |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272735809000245 |journal=Clinical Psychology Review |volume=29 |issue=4 |pages=328β338 |doi=10.1016/j.cpr.2009.02.007 |pmid=19371992 |hdl-access=free |hdl=2445/27746}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page