Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Half Title -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 A victim's story -- The unspoken secret: the story of Barbara -- 2 Outlines -- A brief history of child sexual abuse -- Definitions of incest/child sexual abuse -- Emotional, physical and sexual child abuse -- Attitudes towards child sexual abuse -- 3 Myths -- Mainly grandfather abuse: Peter's story -- Class -- Mothers and collusion -- Sibling incest -- 4 Incidence of child sexual abuse and how to discover it -- How widespread is child sexual abuse? -- Recognition and discovery -- The use of anatomically correct dolls -- The art of interviewing, including 'Do children lie?' -- 5 The victims -- Handicapped/learning disabled and deaf children -- The abuse of boys -- At what age does child sexual abuse begin? -- Victims and their abusers -- Who should leave - abuser or victim? -- 6 The abusers -- Who are the abusers? -- Some aspects of the characters of child sexual abusers -- Juvenile offenders -- Female abusers -- Child sexual abuse outside the family -- Child pornography -- Paedophilia and child sexual abuse rings -- 7 Families -- Jane's story -- Multi-generational child sexual abuse and multi-problem families -- 8 The after-effects of child sexual abuse -- 9 Outlines of treatment -- Some aspects of treatment -- Groups -- Treatment for abusers -- Bibliography -- Index