1 in 5 kids experience sexual abuse

the rate of abuse is 6x higher for individuals with a history of abuse than the base rate of the general population.

1 in 3 women experience sexual violence.

from 24% to 42% Is the range of this “indirect” generational transmission of sexual abuse.

“children of CSA-exposed mothers were more likely to have experienced CSA”

“there is converging evidence of intergenerational patterns of risk and mothers who are CSA survivors are up to 3.6 times as likely to have children who are also exposed to sexual violence compared to mothers who were not abused”