Assessing the Addiction Impact and Supervisory Status on Child Sexual Abuse with a Focus on the Obtained Samples from Social Emergency Centers in Tehran

The main purpose of this study is to identify the effective causes of child sexual abuse of girls and boys under the age of 15 among those referred to four social emergency centers located in Tehran province. Study

For this purpose, two indicators of parental alcohol or narcotics addiction and child custody status were studied as effective factors. Each of these factors was selected using a researcher questionnaire and available sampling method. Using the information obtained with the help of SPSS software, it was entered into statistical tables. Then, the relationship between the variables was examined through the relevant statistical tests, and the correlation coefficient was analyzed.

The research sample consists of 121 girls and boys up to 15 years old in Tehran province whose social emergency has reported cases of sexual harassment. The results of data analysis indicate that there is a statistically significant relationship between sexual victimization and two indicators of parental alcohol or drug addiction and child custody status.

Testing the hypotheses suggests that many factors such as: family and social reasons play a role in the occurrence of child abuse that due to the need to identify these factors to prevent child victimization, it is necessary to help identify and investigate these factors.