Abstract
This study is an investigation into the relationship between child sexual, physical, psychological, emotional and ritualistic abuse among high school students in the Northern Province (South Africa). Gender and urban-rural differences are also examined in relation to child sexual abuse. The method of secondary data analysis was used to analyse the same data used by Madu and Peltzer (1998, 2000) and Madu, Peltzer and Mashego (1998). Logistic Regression Analysis shows that among all the participants child sexual abuse correlates positively with psychological and emotional forms of child abuse. No gender correlated significantly with child sexual abuse. Chi-Square analysis for village-urban difference shows that child sexual abuse occurs more often in the urban areas than in the villages. The authors conclude that mental health workers and social workers should take note of the above relationship in planning preventive and therapeutic strategies for victims of child abuse in the area.
Highlights
Child abuse is one of the major problems that demand urgent attention in South Africa
It is important to ascertain the relationship between child sexual abuse and other forms of child abuse, because in many societies people are not always willing to report child sexual abuse to the appropriate law enforcement agencies
Many of the cases are not reported to the mental health workers, social workers or law enforcement agencies (Bagley & Ramsey, 1985; Goodwin, 1988; Gutheil, 1991; Kraemer, 1988; Steele, 1991; Wolf, 1995)
Summary
Child abuse is one of the major problems that demand urgent attention in South Africa. Madu and Peltzer (1998) found the prevalence rates of child psychological, physical, emotional and ritualistic abuse among high school students in the Northern Province (South Africa) to be 80.7%, 19.8%, 26.3%, and 8.0% respectively. They found the prevalence of child sexual abuse among the same population to be 54.2% (Madu & Peltzer, 2000) and of childhood incestuous abuse to be 15.2%. The perpetrators go unreported and all the possible psychological, social and psychiatric short-
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