What Sexual Abuse does to our children...

Sexually abused children may also develop the following:

• unusual interest in or avoidance of all things of a sexual nature

• sleep problems or nightmares

• depression or withdrawal from friends or family

• seductiveness

• statements that their bodies are dirty or damaged, or fear that there is something wrong with them in the genital area

• refusal to go to school

• delinquency/conduct problems

• secretiveness

• aspects of sexual molestation in drawings, games, fantasies

• unusual aggressiveness, or

• suicidal behavior
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Margaret Mead (1901-1978)