A toxic trio of parental problems strongly linked to childhood sexual abuse

(University of Toronto) A new study has found that adults who had parents who struggled with substance dependence, intimate partner violence and mental illness are more than 10 times more likely to have been victims of childhood sexual abuse than those whose parents did not have these problems, once age and race are taken into account.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news