title: Lexical redescription of child sexual abuse in the South African English-language press.
abstract: Content analysis of 1,044 child sexual abuse reports over an 8-yr. period in the South African English-language press indicated that 8.5% (n=89) of reports use the language of consensual sexual activity to describe the abuse, with this percentage remaining constant over the 8-yr. period reviewed.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008402:Mass Media; D013019:South Africa; D014825:Vocabulary