Child Abuse: Rape, causes, effects & peventions|| 10% to steemkidss

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INTRODUCTION

Rape has existed for as long as time itself has. The casualties or number of rape cases has been brought down since the invention of international laws and the standing up of female activists. Children especially girl child are most vulnerable when it comes to rape attack. The need for awareness of this is very essential to the young ladies becoming women in the future.

Countries in the world topping with highest rape cases are Bostwana, Lesotho and South Africa respectively. This countries need to have intense awareness on the after effects of raping youngsters and the low self esteem it brings.

WHAT IS RAPE

Rape simply meaning having sexual relationship with some one who hasnt given you consent. Inotherwords it means forcing someone to sleep with you against their consent.

And yes its weve had cases of older women forcing young males to sleep with them. All is considered rape and have their punishments.

CAUSES OF RAPE

Well the main reason why rape happens cannot be overemphasized but here are some of the causes;

• Wrong dressing;
  I know that a lot of people will disagree with me on this but it is the bitter truth. You know that your a girl and exposing your private part puts you at risk and you still go about wearing clothes that exposes your body or makes you look half naked.
  This is very bad, all in the name of fashion people are getting raped.

• Dealing with rejection:
  Rapist especially men who have been rejected by women in the past use rape as a means of dealing with the rejection. We see it as a weapon used against women inorder to console their rejected self.

• Feeling superior to women:
  Naturally women are weaker vessels in that the Bible describe them as support to the man. But this ideology have been misinterpreted by some useless set of people who think that they are to subject the ladies.
  Im some part of the world women are treated like slaves. Very unfortunate and in a bid to express this their superiority they bring in rape as a trophy.

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• Revenge:
  Lets take for an instance a guy approaches a lady and ask her out and the lady turns him down. He later arranges with his friends who know this girl to lure her to a room and then he can have his revenge on her. Things happen and this is one of them. It happens either by drugging the girl or other things as seen below

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EFFECTS & PEVENTIONS

After effects of rape on a victim is much and cannot be overemphasized.

• Victims find it hard to have high self esteem and confidence. It can even to depression which could lead to death

• The spread of STIs could be pertinent. Victims can contract sexually transmitted diseases from rapist etc.

Ways of curbing this menace is simple, by

1. Creating awareness on the dangers, effects and solutions to rape cases in a particular region.

2. Enforcing laws which would sentence the oppressors to death or lifetime imprisonment with option of hard labour while giving people out there freedom to speak out when they have been afflicted.

3. You are a girl child and you love visiting male friends, you need to stop this if you want to protect yourself.

I hope this documentary goes a long way to educate the young girl child

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