More learning on abuse

[drwex]

Last time, I noted that there's a lot I don't know about the laws around abuse - today's post is more of the same.

In her column today "2011’s Lessons on How We Can Better Protect Children From Sexual Abuse", (law) Professor Marci Hamilton reviews some of the abuse cases that have been made public in the past year and lists 10 "lessons learned". I'll excerpt here:
10. Organizations cover up child sex abuse.
9. The pattern of the cover-up of child sex abuse is the same, regardless of the institution.
8. It takes all of us to cover up child sex abuse.
7. The information about ongoing child sex abuse is all around us and needs to be put to constructive ends
6. Abuse is a lot more prevalent than anyone wants to believe
5. Those who come forward to allege that they were the victims of child sex abuse rarely make up their claims.
4. States must enact better laws if our children are going to truly be safe from sexual abuse.
3. We need better mandatory reporting laws
2. We need to eliminate the statutes of limitations for child sex abuse
1. Politicians are behind the learning curve on these issues

I think I grok all of these except #4. Assuming we improved the mandatory reporting laws (point 3) and fixed the statute-of-limitations problems (point 2), what other legal changes are necessary, particularly to protect children? Are other experts on child abuse calling for changes in states' laws?

Ms Hamilton wrote a book in 2008 on this topic. Do I need to read this book to understand the point of legal failures?

As an aside she notes on point 6 that the rate of abuse is 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 5 boys; I didn't realize the rate in boys was that high.