The term ‘sibling’ can encompass relationships between biological, step, half, adopted, and foster siblings 1 how common is sibling sexual abuse Parents and professionals often overreact or underreact to apparent sibling sexual behavior Learning to identify harmful dynamics is key to child safety. Following hollyoaks' depiction of sibling sexual abuse (ssa) between characters jj and frankie, on ssa survivor shares their story. The goal of this bulletin is to define sibling sexual abuse (ssa) and provide guidance for parents and professionals on how to respond
Professionals responding to sibling sexual behavior may find their training on child sexual abuse and maltreatment to be helpful However, keep in mind that there are unique dynamics in sibling relationships that are important to consider. Defining sibling sexual abuse general agreement in the literature is that ssa includes sexual behavior between siblings that is “not age appropriate, not transitory, and not motivated by developmentally, mutually appropriate curiosity,” and which often involves the exploitation of a power dynamic and some degree of forced or coercive activity. What is sibling sexual behaviour Sibling sexual behaviour means any type of sexual behaviour between siblings
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