The Invisible Boy

Back in 1996, Health Canada released a report entitled The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens. Prepared by Dr. Frederick Mathews, this paper documents the neglected experiences of our boys and provides yet another legitimate source of information regarding their troubles.Back in 1996, Health Canada released a report entitled The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens. Prepared by Dr. Frederick Mathews, this paper documents the neglected experiences of our boys and provides yet another legitimate source of information regarding their troubles.

Purpose of The Invisible Boy
The Invisible Boy is intended for a wide readership. Readers may find some of the issues or research presented in the document new or surprising, maybe even a little controversial. Others may find no surprises at all, but instead a confirmation of what they have experienced, observed themselves or believed all along. In any case, it is perhaps most important to see the document, not as a definitive statement of the male experience (we are too early in the struggle for that), but rather as a snapshot in time of some of the controversies, challenges, knowledge gaps and unexplored issues pertaining to the male experience of victimization. If it spurs the reader to further explore the literature, encourages the therapeutic community to expand its knowledge base about victims and perpetrators, or widens public debate on abuse to make it more inclusive, then it will have achieved its purpose.

An HTML version is also available from Health Canada.

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