When the author was adviser to the Australian Minister for Education for writing the national Safe Schools Framework (2003), meetings were held with early-childhood care and education administrators from all state, Catholic and independent sectors. Their unexpected message was that educators were facing new problems, those of child sexual abuse in…

Comparison of 84 male incarcerated child molesters and 95 nonoffender comparison subjects (who had all been sexually abused in childhood) found significant differences in their attitudes toward having been molested. Prisoners were more accepting of their abuse and liked some aspect of the initial abuse, but did not use their own abuse as an excuse…