St. Vincent & the Grenadines: Child Sexual Abuse

Referring to reports from the WHO, Abeni contemplates the push factors for the sexual abuse of children in the Caribbean: “How do parents protect children from their own relatives and how do we teach the young to value themselves? I suspect the answer or part of it lies in building self esteem and being really open in handling sex education.”

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