Child Abuse Among High School Children in the Northern Province of South Africa

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This study constituted a cross-sectional investigation into child sexual, psychological, physical, emotional and ritualistic forms of abuse among high school students in the Northern Province of South Africa. 414 students in standard nine and ten in three high schools filled in a retrospective self-rating questionnaire in a classroom setting. The questionnaire asked for the demographic variables of the participants; psychological, physical and emotional abusive experiences from their parents or adult caretakers before the age of 17 years, and ritualistic abusive experiences before the age of 17 years; and finally, for the self-perception of the participants about his or her being abused as a child, and his or her overall rating of own-childhood.

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