Cause and effect essay

MERY ARIANSYAH

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English Department / Semester 4

Increasing of Sexual Harassment toward Children

Nowadays, crimes can be found every time and everywhere. We need to be careful in whatever situation, because we do not know exactly when that crime comes to us. Abduction, violation, terrorism, and robbery are kinds of crimes which we can find easily in our environment. The most terrible one is sexual harassment toward children. In Indonesia, sexual harassment toward children has been increased since 2012. The increasing of it in 2014 is higher than others. There are so many effects of sexual harassment toward children. The victims of sexual harassment especially children can get psychological problems, sexual diseases, and their parents’ anxiety will be increased toward their children’s safety.

The biggest damage of sexual harassment toward children is getting psychological problems. As everybody knows children have unstable emotion. So that they get psychological problem easily when sexual harassment comes down on their life. There are some psychological problems which may happen. First, children will fell powerlessness. Why can it be? Because they feel really different with another children which is caused by their physical defect. Consequently they will feel shy and have no confidence any more. The second psychological problem is sexual pathology called Pedophilia. The victims of sexual harassment will be agents of sexual harassment itself one day when they are adult. It is really bad habit as their revenge to cover their sadness which is given before. If they do it successfully, they will feel very satisfied. The third is children can get sexual trauma. The serious trauma will exist as long as they remember the sexual harassment which happened in their self before. They will get a lot of problems that have relation with love and sex when they are adult. They always think negatively about their partner due to their serious trauma.

Getting sexual diseases is one of serious effect of sexual harassment. Some of sexual diseases such as, HIV/AIDS, infection, bleeding, and many more can happen toward children as victims of sexual harassment. Children have lower antibody than adult. Therefore they can get serious infection quickly. The cells formation of their body are not complete yet, while the agents of sexual harassment infect them with a million bacteria and virus. Finally, the terrible death comes with no permission.

Their parents’ anxiety will be increased toward their children’s safety because of sexual harassment. All of parents are afraid of this sexual harassment. Their anxiety will be higher because they never know and guest who can do this bad action to their children. In addition, most of children spend their time in the outside, like during learning at school, having a course, playing games with their friends, etc. Parents feel so hard to control their children during having activities in the outside. Their children meet and know some persons every day no matter who kind of persons they are. If children feel happy with someone, they will enjoy the friendship easily without thinking any kinds of risks. Based on this character, their chance of being victims of sexual harassment is very big. So their parents’ anxiety is getting higher and higher.

In conclusion, psychological problems, sexual diseases, and the increasing of their parents’ anxiety, are effects of sexual harassment toward children. Although the effects seem very difficult to be decreased directly, at least we all can minimize the sexual harassment in our environment. The most important we need to know is nothing is impossible as long as we want to try and struggle on it. Think positively, and take action!

June 18, 2014