Why does child sexual abuse remain alarmingly persistent across three decades despite legal safeguards? Examine India’s structural and social failures.
Kartavya Desk Staff
Topic: Population and associated issues.
Topic: Population and associated issues.
Q1. Why does child sexual abuse remain alarmingly persistent across three decades despite legal safeguards? Examine India’s structural and social failures. (10 M)
Difficulty Level: Medium
Reference: DTE
Why the question: The 2025 Lancet study revealing alarming prevalence of child sexual abuse in India despite laws like POCSO, highlighting systemic failures over decades. Key demand of the question: The answer must explain why child sexual abuse continues at high levels despite existing legal safeguards and examine both structural and social-level failures in India’s institutional and cultural response. Structure of the Answer: Introduction Mention recent Lancet data and underline how persistence of CSA reflects deeper societal and systemic failures. Body Structural failures: Weak law enforcement, delayed justice, inadequate child-friendly systems, data and coordination gaps. Social failures: Stigma, patriarchal silence, gender bias, institutional cover-ups, and lack of awareness education. Conclusion Suggest that CSA is not just a legal issue but a moral and institutional crisis needing systemic cultural reform and decentralised child protection governance.
Why the question: The 2025 Lancet study revealing alarming prevalence of child sexual abuse in India despite laws like POCSO, highlighting systemic failures over decades.
Key demand of the question: The answer must explain why child sexual abuse continues at high levels despite existing legal safeguards and examine both structural and social-level failures in India’s institutional and cultural response.
Structure of the Answer:
Introduction Mention recent Lancet data and underline how persistence of CSA reflects deeper societal and systemic failures.
• Structural failures: Weak law enforcement, delayed justice, inadequate child-friendly systems, data and coordination gaps.
• Social failures: Stigma, patriarchal silence, gender bias, institutional cover-ups, and lack of awareness education.
Conclusion Suggest that CSA is not just a legal issue but a moral and institutional crisis needing systemic cultural reform and decentralised child protection governance.