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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the Study: There has been a growing increase in child abuse, especially sexual abuse and its attendant teenage pregnancy, . Child abuse can be seen as harm to, or neglect of a child by another person, such a harm or abuse may be cause by parents, teachers, peers or any other significant person in the child’s life, . According to Hopper, , child abuse can ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   Background to the Study The problem of sexual abuse has received the attention of scholars from a variety of life domains, because the scourge seems to be an issue of immorality that has no regard for individual status, religious affiliation, wealth, education, or development of countries across the globe (Gowen, 2001; Berdahl, 2007; Dobbin, 2009; Menon et al., 2011). The quest for modernity, which is a paradigm that ...