The physically and sexually
abused children: Evaluation and treatment.
Older People's Commissioner for Wales Sarah Rochira said: "Almost daily we hear stories in the news about older people being mistreated or
abused. How we treat our older people says a lot about us and elder abuse is a disgraceful shame on the face of our nation."
When gender distribution according to abuse types was examined, physical abuse was observed with an equal rate in girls and boys, but 56.8% of the children who were
abused sexually were found to be female (Table 5).
By the age of 18 years, however, the BMI trajectories of
abused girls had begun to diverge.
It claimed 18% were
abused by a partner, husband or spouse.
The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study conducted by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also indicates that
abused children are at greater risk of alcoholism, illicit drug use, suicide, sexually transmitted diseases, heart disease and an array of other illnesses later in life.
These findings support prior studies with homeless youths that have revealed significantly higher levels of depression and internalizing problems in physically and sexually
abused homeless youths than in nonabused homeless youths (Ryan et al., 2000; Stiffman, 1989).
Some 58% of those who had experienced abuse reported that the perpetrator was a man, 14% had been victimized by a woman and 28% had been
abused by both.
* A child with a femoral fractures has a one-in-three to-four chance of having been
abusedIn two previous qualitative studies of abuse of women with physical disabilities including women with SCI/D, we found that women who had been previously
abused either during childhood or as an adult were more likely to report repeated victimization (Hassouneh-Phillips, 2005; Hassouneh-Phillips & McNeff, 2004).
At age 32, previously
abused individuals exhibited markedly higher concentrations of two inflammatory substances--C-reactive protein and fibrinogen--than their unabused peers did, the researchers report in the Jan.