The deafening silence of child abuse

Stories of abuse are strange. Sometimes they are blazing headlines ? ?18 month old raped in Kolkata?, ?Teenagers rape toddler in Delhi ? but mostly, they silently wrap up inside themselves. This is the story of some of those untold stories, the ones that were desperately locked away in the dusty attics of childhood, untouched and uncleaned.
I recently mentioned that I was writing about child sexual abuse to a well-to-do mother of two boys. ?But that stuff doesn?t impact my boys, right?? she asked hopefully. Well, before you think that gender, education or income provides insurance against child abuse, consider these facts: one out of every two children in India is sexually abused, most never report it, 52% of the cases are boys. These are staggering statistics, and essentially mean that if any one of us thinks that there has been no child abuse in our family ? we are probably wrong.
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