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Girls' sexual development in the inner city: from compelled childhood sexual contact to sex-for-things exchanges.
- Source :
- Journal of Child Sexual Abuse; 2003, Vol. 12 Issue 2, p73-96, 24p
- Publication Year :
- 2003
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Abstract
- Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) has been linked to a wide variety of adverse psychological and behavioral outcomes. This paper describes girls' sexual development in the inner city based on qualitative material from a long-term ethnographic (observational) study. For many inner-city girls, early and then continued experiences of being compelled to have sex were found to be part of a pathway leading to independent sexuality that often involved prostitution, teen pregnancy, early motherhood, school dropout, limited involvement with jobs, drug abuse, multiple children by different fathers and single-parent families. Quotes from respondents illustrate the mechanics of this process and how it is sustained by the deprivations of structural disadvantage, prevailing subcultural norms, violence and illicit drug use. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ADOLESCENCE
BLACK people
CHILD development
CHILD sexual abuse
EXPERIENCE
INCEST
INTERVIEWING
LONGITUDINAL method
SCIENTIFIC observation
SEX work
RESEARCH funding
SELF-disclosure
HUMAN sexuality
SUBSTANCE abuse
ETHNOLOGY research
QUALITATIVE research
SOCIOECONOMIC factors
RETROSPECTIVE studies
FIELD notes (Science)
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10538712
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Child Sexual Abuse
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 106738485
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1300/j070v12n02_04