Fighting sexual violence against women and children in South Africa is regarded as a priority. The aim of this study is to explore the reasons for the reluctance to disclose sexual abuse by middle childhood children. Some ...

Dealing with child sexual abuse cases, is an integral part of the social workers job. Due to the nature of the abuse and the provisions made by the Children’s Act, 38 of 2005, as amended, to safeguard the child victim, ...

Child sexual abuse is a global problem that occurs across cultures and socio-economic groupings with profound long term physical and mental health consequences. This study focuses on exploring and describing current social ...

Sexual abuse of children is very high in South-Africa. It also seems that sexual abuse of children is not reported, especially in rural areas. The focus of this study was to look at the perceptions of role-players with ...

Sexual abuse of children is a major problem in South Africa. There is an increasing number of orphans in urban but also in rural areas of children and orphans who are sexually abused. The researcher experienced in her daily ...

The profession of social work is already used for years by the legal system to assist courts in evaluating a person's personal circumstances and the course of justice. In practice it is often taken for granted that a ...

With this research the researcher aims to explore and describe the psycho-social risk factors for children of mothers with a history of childhood sexual abuse in order to gain a better understanding of the extent to which ...