Understanding Sexual Violence: Sexual Assault, Sexual Abuse, and Victims’ Rights

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Experiencing sexual violence is life-changing. Assault, abuse, molestation, rape, and all forms of sexual violence are traumatic. The effects are long-lasting and difficult to deal with, impacting individual mental health and family relationships with far-reaching psychological, emotional, and physical effects. Sexual violence is something many people are uncomfortable talking about openly, and uncomfortable even defining. But […]