child sexual abuse
child sexual abuse noun: sexual abuse of a child by an adult or older child.
Noun
child sexual abuse (uncountable)
- Sexual abuse of a child by an adult or older child.
- More than $100 million has been paid out to victims of institutional child sexual abuse in Queensland, amid more than 13,000 national applications for redress.2022 April 14, Cloe Read, “$100m paid out to child sexual abuse victims in schools, churches”, in Brisbane Times
- One meta-analysis found that European countries, many of which offer comprehensive, mandatory sex ed, including for young children, tend to have the lowest rates of child sexual abuse in the world.2022 April 14, Olga Khazan, “Republicans Have Sex Ed All Wrong”, in The Atlantic
- Synonyms:
- child molestation
Synonyms of child sexual abuse
Origin of child sexual abuse
From child + sexual abuse.
Words formed from child sexual abuse
Questions about child sexual abuse
- What does child sexual abuse mean?
- Child sexual abuse means sexual abuse of a child by an adult or older child.
- What part of speech is child sexual abuse?
- Child sexual abuse is a noun.
Words near child sexual abuse in the dictionary
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