Report highlights economic impact of child sex abuse

Men who suffered sexual abuse as a child are three times more likely to be unable to work in later life due to ill-health or disability.

A disturbing new report shows for the first time the lifelong impact of child sexual abuse from an economic perspective — finding that both work opportunities and income levels of victims were seriously damaged.

The report from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) found women were badly affected too and were twice as likely to be out of work due to sickness or disability in middle age (50-64) if they had been sexually abused as a child.