Social Work.A research team from the University of Toronto’s Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and Institute of Life Course & Aging found that, with each risk factor present, the prevalence of childhood sexual abuse increased dramatically.The findings show that about one percent of men and two percent of women who were not exposed to parental substance dependence, intimate partner violence, or mental illness reported that they had been sexually abused during their childhood.However, among those exposed to one of these childhood adversities, the prevalence of childhood sexual abuse nearly tripled to 2.7 percent for men and 6.4 percent for women.Exposure to two of the risk factors was linked to an additional increase in the prevalence.
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