PARENTS: listen up.

[CBL4]

Originally posted by aerosol
I just wanted to call you out on your assertation that you "know" there are less abuse cases then are generally reported. It seemed as if you were discounting the incidence rates without a particularly good reason to do so (beyond personal experience). For a subject as serious as this, I tend to be wary of "off-the-cuff" statistics.

Fair enough. It is impossible to get accurate statistics for either.

ETA: I find many false accusations to be more harmful than actual abuse. The child is just as sure that the abuse has occurred and an innocent person is jailed. The court system is abused. And people like me tend to be very skeptical of any abuse charges. In addition, the child may later realize what they have done to the innocent person.

CBL

 

[Elind]

Some sad, sad facts in the ole newspaper today.

All statistics used are cited from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Nearly 50% off all rape victims are under the age of 18.

29% of rape victims are between the ages of 12 and 17 yrs old.

Doing a little math, that comes up to somewhere about 21% must be younger...probably more like 17-18 percent...but that's greater than 1 in 10!!

You have a daughter? Does she have 4 friends? Think of them..their names...

Chances are one of them has been 'sexually exploited'RAPED
Sorry, just cutting through the media doublespeakese.


If you have a son, does he have 9 friends...well...you guessed it. 1 out of 10 boys are sexually molested before they reach adulthood.

www.childlures.com

They just did a presentation in our area focusing on the idea that it isn't always strangers who do these things. Soemtimes it's friends.


With RT's thread about the 18 yr old girl and all, well, it seemed fitting. And sad.

I didn't see a breakdown by various social/ethnic/religious groups.

The really sad part is that the numbers are even more scary within some of those.

 

[shuize]

I'm not usually one to hype. But here's an open secret that's known to almost everybody that works in any capacity in juvenile/family courts. The greatest risk of sexual abuse to children comes from being left with babysitters. No, it's not the babysitters themselves. It's the babysitter's older children. I can't even begin to tell you how many juvenile on juvenile sexual abuse cases roll through family courts every year. Think of a huge number. Then multiply it by ten. Those are the reported cases. The reason that this is not bigger news is largely due to the fact that juvenile court proceedings are not open to the public and the juvenile offender's records are usually sealed.

As Elind suggests above, the numbers are certainly higher within certain racial groups. In my experience, however, that has more to do with who tends to rely on babysitters than on cultural differences.

 

[Elind]

As Elind suggests above, the numbers are certainly higher within certain racial groups. In my experience, however, that has more to do with who tends to rely on babysitters than on cultural differences.

Please note, while racial groups are a valid category in any analysis, I specifically did NOT even use the word "racial" in my comment. That is your assumption, not mine.

 

[boooeee]

You have a daughter? Does she have 4 friends? Think of them..their names...

Chances are one of them has been 'sexually exploited'RAPED
Sorry, just cutting through the media doublespeakese.

I'm curious as to where you're getting this from. I couldn't find in the site you linked where it stated that ~20% of children are raped (although I could have missed it).

 

[Jas]

That depends. Did the "well, okay" come after bodily harm was threatened? Or after "please, please, if you love me you will."

The second.

And there was something else that she had classified as rape after the fact, and I can't remember what it was. But it was another situation where I was like, 'Huh?'

 

[bigred]

Many of the alleged sexual abuse of children are bogus. There are numerous parents who use allegation of abuse as a weapon in custody and divorce cases.

The percent of false cases is unknown. I have seen estimates in that false allegation in divorce cases are as high 80%. The infamous recovered memory are the most ridiculous cases but there are doctors who make their money by finding evidence of sexual abuse whether it occurs or not.
CBL

I don't know what's scarier: the info you just provided or the fact that I don't have the slightest problem believing it's all true.

Family unit R.I.P.