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Org/ en/Dominican_Republic a website for tourists, the age of consent in the Dominican Republic is listed as 18 years. 7) for responding to child sexual abuse. Further complicating the issue of CSA in the Caribbean is the variations in the laws and practices surrounding the age of marriage. ‘In Trinidad and Tobago, in the Hindu Marriage Act, females may marry at the age of 14 and males 18. 7). Sexual intimacy includes oral, anal, or vaginal stimulation or penetration, forced nudity, forced exposure to sexually explicit material or activity, or any other unwanted sexual activity (Dutton, 1994; NSPCC, 2008).
63). 63). Bearing Rousseau’s philosophy in mind, it can be inferred that childhood is a period that is separate from and precedes adulthood. Children are different from adults and should be governed by appropriate rules and therefore treated accordingly. Another major philosophical influence affecting and influencing the views of ‘child’ and ‘childhood’ comes from Sigmund Freud. Freud identified five steps of psycho-sexual development. It was his belief that the two driving forces behind human behaviour were negative and positive sexual energy.
This may have helped 32 Context, Theory and Caribbean Realities in Tackling CSA to cultivate the idea in some persons’ minds that children are miniature adults. One major child development theory of the seventeenth century, the behaviourist theory, seems to have also left a lasting legacy on adults’ perceptions, attitudes and beliefs that have influenced the ability to enable the enactment and protection of children’s rights to have safe and happy childhoods. To proponents of this theory, children were viewed as having the same capabilities as adults.