--- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: "Doug Pensinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > But isn't economic stress a major factor in abuse?
> And wouldn't the
> > poor be more susceptible to economic stress?
>
> Intuitively, one would think so. But, if it is a
> factor, it is hard to
> see. The number 1 controlling factor that I know of
> is that children that
> grow up in abusive homes tend to become abusers
> themselves. Drug and
> alcohol use are also a factor. A change in one's
> ecconomic circunstance
> can be a trigger, but the underlying pattern needs
> to be there. Pressure at work can also be a factor.
I said before, and this goes for child abuse as well:
"...but it should be primarily by reducing ignorance
(genuine or deliberate), poverty, substance abuse and
cultural schizophrenia ("Don't do 'It,' but be a sexy
hottie who makes them all pant after you!")." Poverty
is only one factor, and those who grow up in abusive
homes are at much higher risk of becoming abusers
themselves (I want to say 5+ times more likely, but
that could be _way_ off.)
Neglect, abandonment and abuse in the sense of child
labor/child marriage etc. are, I believe, more
prevalent in poorer situations/countries, but sexual
abuse has no relation whatsoever to socioeconomic
status, and - as below - it is appallingly common.
> The thing that shocked me more than anything is how
> prevalent it is. When
> I was growing up, I thought abuse, particularly
> sexual abuse, is rare. But
> its not. Indeed, Teri's comment on how many priests
> are known as
> pedophiles is that "they have only caught a small
> fraction of them" because
> of the overall statistics, not because of any
> thought that priests are more likely to abuse.
When I was a student, the figures for sexual abuse
were somewhere in the range of 1-in-5-to-7 (girls) and
1-in-10 (boys). I suspect it is no better now.
Debbi
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