Chasfin, Wherry, and Dykeman (1997) conducted a study on children's coping strategies.  Eighty-four sexually abused children and their non accused parents participated in the study.  The majority of the children who suffered sexual abuse was girls.  The children answered questionnaires and their non accused parents did too.  The abused dimensions inventory was used and the children's impact of traumatic event/revised.  Chasfin et al. concluded that there are four coping strategies that children used.  (1) avoidance coping (2) internalized coping (3) anger coping (4) active and social coping.  The coping strategy used the most was number one, avoidance coping.  Gold, Barbara, Lucenko, and Swingle (1998) also conducted research on the topic of sexual abuse.  They concluded that sexual abuse is much more prevalent in girls than in boys.  There are significant differences in the types of sexual abuse between boys and girls.  Girls were abused through vaginal intercourse, where boys most had oral sex performed on them.  Avoiding coping strategies were still used when the sexually abused child grew up.  When researching sexual abuse in children, it is hard to find studies done males.  If more studies were conducted on boys, maybe the sexual abuse findings in boys would be higher.