Few systems are as critical to a community as child welfare. To an outsider, the child welfare system is also a complex labyrinth of programs that cover children’s safety, abuse and neglect, foster care and adoption as well as supporting and strengthening families. How children fare in that system will have lifelong repercussions across all parts of society.
Child Sexual Abuse
Washington Post
Thirty years after suffering sexual abuse at the hands of a swim coach and family friend during her a childhood, a survivor speaks out.
Huffington Post
An estimated 100,000 children in the U.S. are victims of sex trafficking each year. A new campaign hopes to raise awareness of the exploitation and abuse of young Americans by the sex industry.
ACES Too High News
Men who survived physical or sexual abuse as children, and witnessed their mother being beaten, are nearly four times more likely to batter their female partners. This cycle could be broken by providing trauma-informed treatment for perpetrators of domestic violence.
Newsroom stylebooks and media law guides may offer guidance on when to use loaded terms like “accused,” “arrest” and “indict,” but tips on language for sex trafficking are less clear. Here are some terms that may be helpful:Child prostitute- Never use. Children under the age of 18 cannot... Read more
Daliah Singer is associate editor of 5280, a Denver magazine. Her April 2014 article, “The Girls Next Door,” investigates the sex trafficking of minors in Colorado. The article’s strong narrative bent, anchored by interviews with survivors Aubrey and Leah, is supported by research and... Read more
When Sarasota Herald-Tribune reporter J. David McSwane came across a woman raising money to start a safe house for local victims of sex trafficking, he was taken aback.“I thought ‘Is this really going on here?’” he said in an interview. “Sarasota is a pretty affluent community; it just... Read more
The U.S. State Department’s annual “Trafficking in Persons Report” (TIP Report) profiles countries and regions according to anti-trafficking efforts. In 2014, the U.S. retained its Tier 1 ranking, but many challenges remained in its efforts to combat trafficking.
Awareness of the presence of sex trafficking in the U.S. is increasing, but major challenges pose significant barriers to addressing the crime, according to an April 2014 issue brief by The Center for American Progress.
The report aims to expose the seldom-addressed challenges that confront children with disabilities who are sexually abused.
