Traumatizing impact of child sexual abuse

Sexual abuse of children presents a serious sociopathological phenomenon and one of the most serious forms of harming children. The issue of sexual abuse of children has been accompanying a mankind for centuries and it can be viewed from many angles. Sexual abuse, particularly in its intrafamilial form, has an essential and often very traumatic impact on children. The impact on children's current state, on their overall development and thus the quality of their future life. Despite that, from this perspective, there hasn't been always devoted enough attention to this issue yet. Traumatized children react to abuse with great individual variability; picture of the consequences is very fregmented, the symptoms are rather nonspecific, and that also significantly hampers the detection of vulnerable children. We cannot effectively enough to protect children against these risks without good information about who are the abusers of children and for what reason the sexual offending is going on. Intrafamilial sexual abuse is a complex, multifactorial phenomenon, in which creation, development and maintenance is involved not only the abuser, but the structure and dynamics of the family system might play its role too. Proper understanding of these relationships is a necessary condition to start a child's protection..