Language shapes perception. Nowhere is this more consequential than in discussions of child sexual abuse. When an adult engages in sexual behavior with a child, it is sexual abuse. Yet media ...
Last month, Dr. John Kelly gave a presentation at the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Washington D.C. It’s an important agency that funds more than a billion dollars in addiction and treatment ...
The ACT government has announced plans to change the name of the criminal offence of engaging in a “sexual relationship with child or young person under special care” to “persistent sexual abuse of ...