title: Recantation in child sexual abuse cases.
abstract: This article pulls together coherently a rather sparse literature on children's not infrequent retraction of their earlier disclosure of having been sexually abused. Evidence to date indicates that very few originally lied. The pressures and circumstances that underlie recantation are multiple, and suggestions are made for mitigating them.
authors.affiliation: Support Center for Child Advocates, Philadelphia, PA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rieser
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000523:psychology*; D008192:Deception; D006801:Humans; D002666:Psychology, Child