The Forgotten Ones: Maternal Abusers and their Victims: a Pilot Study

Shane A. Dunphy

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The Forgotten Ones: Maternal Abusers and their Victims: a Pilot Study

Shane A. Dunphy

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This paper analyses the phenomenon of mothers who sexually abuse their children, most specifically their sons. It defines the term Maternal Abuse, offers a review of the contemporary academic discourse on female sexual abusers, and presents a quantitative study of maternal abuse in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, which appears to show that the existing statistics from Health Board and ISPCC reports (SEHB Section 8 Report, 1997; ISPCC National Report, 1997) significantly underestimate it's prevelence. It concludes by suggesting that though Ireland is considerably more aware of the phenomenon of sexual abuse than in the past, but that the incidence of this particular type of abuse is poorly recognised by the child protection and welfare authorities

Original language	English
Journal	Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies
Volume	2
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21427/d7mb1m
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 1999
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

child
abuse
maternal
mothers
abusers

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