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Cultural Issues in Disclosures of Child Sexual Abuse
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Cultural norms affect the likelihood that child sexual abuse will be discovered by an adult or disclosed by a child. Cultural norms also affect whether abused children's families will report child sexual abuse to authorities. This article explores the ways ethnic and religious culture affect child sexual abuse disclosure and reporting, both in the United States and internationally. Guidelines for culturally sensitive child abuse interviewing are provided to facilitate disclosures of abuse from culturally diverse children in formal settings.
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“Knowledge on CSA disclosure has been steadily advancing toward a holistic understanding of the complex interplay of individual, familial, contextual, and cultural factors”
From Facilitators and Barriers to Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) Disclosures: A Research Update (2000–2016) (2019) · cites this paper as Fontes & Plummer, 2010
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“Families with rigidly fixed gender roles, patriarchal attitudes, power imbalances, other forms of child abuse and domestic violence, chaotic family structure, dysfunctional communication, and social isolation have been found to suppress disclosure”
From Facilitators and Barriers to Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) Disclosures: A Research Update (2000–2016) (2019) · cites this paper as Fontes & Plummer, 2010
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“and using culturally sensitive probes and questions (Fontes & Plummer, 2010).”
From Facilitators and Barriers to Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) Disclosures: A Research Update (2000–2016) (2019) · cites this paper as Fontes & Plummer, 2010
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“Anecdotal accounts may preclude transferability of findings.”
From Facilitators and Barriers to Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) Disclosures: A Research Update (2000–2016) (2019) · cites this paper as Fontes and Plummer (2010)
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“In a unique study using culturally focused research literature as data triangulated with clinical case material, culturally based belief systems in many cultures have been found to foster family climates that can silence children from disclosing abuse”
From Facilitators and Barriers to Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) Disclosures: A Research Update (2000–2016) (2019) · cites this paper as Fontes & Plummer, 2010
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“Taboos about sexuality, patriarchal attitudes, and devaluation of women are among some of the cultural barriers that inhibit disclosure”
From Facilitators and Barriers to Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) Disclosures: A Research Update (2000–2016) (2019) · cites this paper as Fontes & Plummer, 2010
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“Further, barriers in relation to the social world were identified as stigmatization, the negative labeling of sexual abuse victims, and taboos surrounding sexuality and talking about sex as driven by cultural norms (Collin-Vézina et al., 2015; Fontes & Plummer, 2010).”
From Facilitators and Barriers to Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) Disclosures: A Research Update (2000–2016) (2019) · cites this paper as Fontes & Plummer, 2010
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“Family relations: Families with a patriarchal structure, rigidly fixed gender roles, dysfunctional communication, other forms of abuse (i.e., domestic violence), and isolation inhibit disclosure”
From Facilitators and Barriers to Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) Disclosures: A Research Update (2000–2016) (2019) · cites this paper as Fontes & Plummer, 2010
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“Victim testimony attests to the difficulties in disclosing CSA, and CSA disclosure is dependent on numerous factors including the identity of the perpetrator, the perpetrator-victim relationship, and cultural factors (Goodman-Brown et al., 2003; Fontes & Plummer, 2010; McElvaney & Culhane, 2017).”
From Recall of sexual abuse prevention education at school and home: Associations with sexual abuse experience, disclosure, protective parenting, and knowledge (2022) · cites this paper as Fontes & Plummer, 2010
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Metadata
- Authors
- Fontes, L. A., & Plummer, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (US)
- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (US)
- Corresponding author
- Fontes, Lisa Aronson
- Venue
- Journal of Child Sexual Abuse
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2010-09-30
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 491-518
- ISSN
- 1053-8712 (ISSN-L)
- 1547-0679
- OpenAlex
- W2037414489
- Cited by
- 409
- References
- 71
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- FWCI
- 6.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Child Sexual Abuse (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Military, Security, and Education Studies
- Keywords
- child sexual abuse, disclosure, cultural norms, ethnic culture, religious culture, reporting to authorities, multicultural children, child abuse investigation
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Attitude to Health, Child, Child Abuse, Sexual, Child Behavior, Child Health Services, Child Welfare, Communication Barriers, Cultural Characteristics, Ethnicity, Family Relations, Humans, Social Perception, United States, Global Health, Disclosure
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