Childhood is considered as an essential stage of personality development. Children can learn how to become independent and confident. It requires their parents to listen to their children. However, some parents use physical or psychological punishment, but they don't realize that this affects their children. In fact, one of the global issues is child abuse. According to the National child protection council where it was established in 1991 in Australia .The committee on child protection defines child abuse as an assortment of actions or behaviours that affect the children to become suffered, being or likely to result in significant damage. It embraces corporal abuse, sexual violation, emotional harm and negligence. But the most object that affects children is sexual abuse which exists in all ethnicities, religions and cultures. This essay highlights the long-term impacts of sexual abuse on children in Australia which including, the effects the sexual abuse of their life, the government efforts to prevent it and association between sexual abuse and later outcomes on child and society.
Children who suffer from child abuse cope with plenty of health problems both physically and mentally.Apparently, increasing the number of research that was established to support the pieces of evidence that there is a link between child sexual abuse and implications mental. As a result, the studies demonstrated that the most dangerous issues impact the children’s effect and the psychological health including; brain damage, anxiety and social problem. Moreover, Research on 1,411 twin pairs, presented significant odds rate extent for a range of psychiatric disturbances in sexually abused women when the family environment was controlled (Kindler et al. 2000). Based on the research drug and alcohol dependence and bulimia nervosa are two disorders that affect the people who had been sexually abused. Another research explored in New Zealand demonstrates that there is a relation between the sexual abuse and the risk of a later mental problem. Dinwiddie’s et al. (2000) study observed that a relationship between child abuse and psychological problems the study was on approximately a five thousand twin pairs in Australian. It was proved in studies that the majority of the children who experienced child sexual abuse had had depression, panic disorder and alcohol dependence. However, if the family decided to disclose the sexual abuse early and appropriately, it would be a key to provide them superior services and minimize the long-term effect symptoms. Approximately five thousand twin pairs in Australian and the study had found. In general, a child who is sexually abused takes time to reveal such abuse while some never do.
Government efforts to reduce the number of children who have sexually abused. They spent approximately 712 million dollars in protecting the child rights and found different governors and organization that was specially made to dealing with protecting the children. In fact, the government is trying to figure out how to deal with this problem as a serious issue. They have several ways and solutions to prevent sexual abuse of children from happening. The first step, if the child in an immediate risk, call the (000) directly. Then, parents should know that the child sexual abuse; if they realized the problem early, they would deal better with it. Furthermore, the high risk of the victims of sexual violence has made the government think over of ways to awareness and this including, how to report, the signal of abuse, monitoring the behavior of the child, speak softly and gently and ask the specialists. Besides, they provided a community to give the parents advice and help them to deal with this issue. Furthermore, two serious problems are facing the government on this affair. One of the issues is the problems that the parents are defiance. For instance, social or financial situation, high expectation of children, can't treat their children in the right way and under drug and alcohol or was abused as a child. Another issue is society attitude makes the abuse easier. For example, accept violence and corporal penalty of children, believe that the parents are doing the right to patronize their children, racism, discrimination between women and men and the last notable point is ignorance of parents about the impact of child abuse. Over the past years, the government's policy has been to develop child protection policies, focusing on early intervention and enlightenment rather than punitive measures.
The research concerned that there is an association between sexual abuse and the following outcome on the child and society with a significant influence. Researchers indicate that various types of disorders can affect the children after being sexually abused, it is likely to have schizophrenia and delusional disorder (Bendall, Jackson, Hulbert, & McGorry 2011; Lataster et al., 2006; Wurr & Partridge, 1996). Aside from that personality disorders (Cutajar, 2010).On the other hand, according to the parliament of Australia that there are consequences of long-term on child abuse difficult to predict (Cicchetti & Toth, 1995; Edari & McManus, 1998). Research has shown that divorce, non-adaptation and multiple social issues are closely related to sexual assault history.
In conclusion, child sexual abuse has a critical damage to the health and society. Without a doubt, the government has an enormous role to resolve this issue and several pieces of research proved the link between sexual abuse and the long-term effects. Consequently, the impact of sexual assault on children constitutes a grave danger to the child, his family, and society. Further, it affects economically and socially. For all of that, the government tries to control the issue and focus on the prevention measures before the abuse occurs. On the other hand, they have to care about the children who have been abused and compensated. The people who have exposure to children must have harsh penalties. Apparently, the government provides specialized treatment programs for the child who is abuse and their families.