Child maltreatment remains a major public-health and social-welfare problem in high-
income countries. Every year, about 4–16% of children are physically abused and one in ten …

Childhood and adolescent sexual abuse (CSA) is associated with a wide variety of adverse
psychological and health outcomes, including negative sexual health outcomes. In this …

A meticulously researched inside look at child sexual abuse by clergy, this exhaustive, hard-
hitting analysis weaves together interviews with abusive priests and church historical and …

Objectives. We explored long-term health consequences of age at sexual initiation and of
abstinence until marriage to evaluate empirical support for the claim that postponing sexual …

Purpose Stressful childhood experiences (SCE) are associated with many different health
outcomes, such as psychiatric symptoms, physical illnesses, alcohol and drug abuse, and …

1. To protect children 2. The Church to accept responsibility for the abuse 3. The individual
to accept responsibility for the abuse 4. My story to be heard by the Church 5. To remove that …

Previous research has indicated a high prevalence of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) among
men who have sex with men (MSM) in the United States, and has suggested that CSA …

Recent research suggests that gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) persons are
at greater risk for mental health problems, including suicidal and nonsuicidal self-injury, than …

Childhood sexual and physical abuse have been linked to adolescent and adult risky sexual
behaviors, including early sexual debut, an increased number of sexual partners …

For over a decade following the identification of HIV/AIDS, marked declines in numbers and
rates of bacterial sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) were reported in many western …