Children, Sex and Social Policy

Children, adolescents, adults and the problems of sex; childhood and sexuality - cross-cultural perspectives; sexual behaviour in children and adolescents - American, Canadian and European studies; child sex rings - marginal, deprived and exploited children; a retrospective psychological study of 32 children and adolescents involved in sex rings; child and adolescent prostitution in North America and the Third World - case studies of cruelty and cultural misunderstanding; children, pornography and paedophilia - the limits of control; young adult women surviving sexual abuse - a taxonomic study; policies for gay and lesbian youth; paedophilia and incest - putting the puzzle together for humanistic programmes; victims and abusers - paedophile images and literary escape; inhuman response to human problems - investigating and preventing child sexual abuse; countering physical, emotional and sexual abuse - humane solutions and cultural change.