the following is a research essay I did for a first year course, Canadian Social Welfare, in 2010 at George Brown College in Toronto.

While my directional analysis could have been more focused and provided more in the way of solutions, I still feel that it is worth posting here.

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Childhood Sexual Abuse and Its Impact In Canada

The perpetuation of child sexual abuse in Canada has far reaching effects and consequences for its victims, its perpetrators and Canadian society as a whole.  These effects are systemic in nature and include: the trauma of the individual, the family and the community to the added burdens that it places on all of society economically, judicially and through the need for added social services.   I am going to illustrate the current ramifications of child sexual abuse and what is and is not being done to prevent it from occurring. Ultimately I will suggest some structural issues that I believe need to be addressed in order to move towards improving the social impact of this issue.

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