Children with disabilities encounter some of the highest risks of sexual abuse worldwide — yet they are often left out of prevention programs designed to protect children.

Our team at CHILD USA recently completed a global overview of efforts over the past 15 years to prevent child sexual abuse (CSA) among children with disabilities (CwD). What we discovered was both hopeful and concerning: the field is growing, but inclusion and sustainability still face obstacles. This isn’t a published study yet; it’s an ongoing research project, part of a larger conversation about how to build truly inclusive prevention systems. But the evidence we’ve gathered already provides a clear picture of where the world currently stands and where it needs to go from here.

On September 29, 2025, OpenAI announced the rollout of new parental controls for ChatGPT amid mounting legal and public scrutiny over the safety of conversational AI for minors. The feature allows parents to link their accounts to those of teenagers aged 13 to 17, automatically activating stronger filters that block sexual or romantic roleplay, screen sensitive content, down-rank extreme imagery, and disable high-risk functions such as voice and image generation or the use of conversations in model training.