Peer-to-peer abuse: a manufactured panic

The obsession with peer-to-peer sexual abuse is disturbing. It speaks to a society that is becoming increasingly willing to label children and young people as 'abusers'. This is never a helpful or informative label to apply to a child. It is appalling that Barnardo's [British children's charity] thinks it is helping young people by encouraging fear and anxiety about their sex lives. This manufactured panic must stop.

source: Article 'Peer-to-peer abuse: a manufactured panic' by Luke Gittos; www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/peer-to-peer-abuse-a-manufactured-panic; spiked; 6 February 2017