Interaction
Year : 2017, Volume : 35, Issue : 3
First page : ( 24) Last page : ( 29)
Print ISSN : 0970-5554. Online ISSN : 2456-8961.

Child sexual abuse: A stumbling block for social development

Susmita

Research Scholar, Department of Sociology, BHU, Varanasi

Online published on 11 July, 2018.

Abstract

India is home to 430 million children, roughly one in five of all children (individuals under age 18) in the world. From the moment they are born, the challenges they face are staggering. Child Sexual Abuse is one such challenge that violates some of the basic requirements of social development i.e. social harmony, freedom from violence; inters personal safety and trust, and therefore acts as a bottleneck for social development.

This paper attempts to explain various forms of child sexual abuse and the multi-dimensional aspect of its prevalence at various institutional levels with the help of few highlighted cases of CSA in media. Also, six primary cases of child sexual abuse have been taken from a non-governmental organization "SWADHAR GRIH" in Varanasi district of UP between July-August, ‘17 to understand a new issue of the cases of elopement being reported as cases of child sexual abuse by parents that exploit children with the help of the very law enacted to help them.

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Keywords

Child Sexual Abuse; Social Development; POCSO Act, 2012.

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