Child Sexual Abuse and Sexual Aggression in Children
Robert Osadan, Elizabeth Reid

Abstract
This paper surveys the literature on child sexual abuse and the symptoms in school-age children, focusing on sexual aggression in children as the most indicative symptom in child victims and the most disruptive to the school. Society likes to think that child molestation is relatively rare. Statistics show this is not so. While the figures vary, an average of them indicates that one out of every three girls and one out of every five boys will be sexually abused before they reach age eighteen (The Advocacy Center, "The Facts About Youth Sexual Abuse" http://www.theadvocacycenter.org/adv_abuse.html.) Up to 95% of child molestations can be prevented. Talking to children honestly, and from an early age.about not letting others touch their private parts and telling them that it is appropriate to tell an adult if someone tries, can go a long way to stopping this social problem.

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