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Why Children Might Lie About Being Abused…
Research suggests that false allegations of child sexual abuse are relatively uncommon outside of specific contexts, such as custody disputes. Studies indicate that false reports of sexual abuse occur at low rates, often estimated at less than 5% of cases.
For example, Yates’ (1991) review found that false accusations in non-custody-related cases are rare, especially when compared to accusations in custody disputes, where motivations like securing child custody may come into play (and sadly, this has been weaponized by lawyers and the judicial system to claim parental alienation in cases where children really ARE being abused and the safe parent is villanized for 'coaching' a child to disclose- but that's another post for another day).
Furthermore, in educational settings, Charol Shakeshaft’s research on educator misconduct indicated that none of the accusations in their sample of educator sexual misconduct cases were found to be fabricated.
In these cases,...
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