Prevention of Sexual Violence in Early Childhood Based on Parents’ Educational Level

Abstract

Sexual violence is a complex phenomenon. Most of the perpetrators of sexual crimes have experienced sexual abuse as a child. This study aims to analyze research trends regarding early childhood sex education, the role of parents, and sexual violence. The design of this research is to use bibliometric analysis research. Data was collected using Publish or Perish software sourced from Google Scholar. As many as 1000 journals from 2020-2022 researchers analyzed using the VOS Viewer software. So that the results of research mapping on sex education, parents, and sexual violence were obtained. The results showed that the themes most often studied were parental, school, and sex education themes. The variable related to sex education that has the opportunity to be further researched is the relationship between sex education and the level of education of parents and disability. This study is only limited to knowing research patterns related to the theme of sex education, parent's education level, and sexual violence using the VOS Viewer software. This research shows that sex education is still not optimally instilled in children from an early age. Educators, both parents, and teachers, still consider sex education a taboo. So that children do not understand how to avoid when dealing with people who have evil intentions. Researchers hope that there will be more research for educators to provide sex education and realize the importance of sex education from an early age.