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. 1993 Jan-Feb;17(1):67-70.
doi: 10.1016/0145-2134(93)90009-t.

Epidemiological factors in the clinical identification of child sexual abuse

D Finkelhor  1
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Epidemiological factors in the clinical identification of child sexual abuse

D Finkelhor. Child Abuse Negl. 1993 Jan-Feb.

Abstract

The main finding from epidemiological literature on child sexual abuse is that no identifiable demographic or family characteristics of a child may be used to exclude the possibility that a child has been sexually abused. Some characteristics are associated with greater risk: girls more than boys, preadolescents and early adolescents, having a stepfather, living without a natural parent, having an impaired mother, poor parenting, or witnessing family conflict. Class and ethnicity appear not be associated with risk. In any case, none of these factors bear a strong enough relationship to the occurrence of abuse that their presence could play a confirming or disconfirming role in the identification of actual cases.

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