Age and relationship of offender/ victim in AMSC

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Re: Age and relationship of offender/ victim in AMSC

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Pharmakon wrote: Thu Sep 12, 2024 6:03 pm
Incest offences are common...
The Finnish data are making me skeptical about this.
Perhaps it's more accurate to write that incest offences are common amongst reported AMSC?

Or maybe Finnish culture is different to US culture in a way that shifts the numbers.

Or maybe incest survivors didn't answer honestly in the survey.

Anecdotally on reddit, a LOT of people talking about being sexually abused as children talk about a familial perpetrator.

Actually the number of incidents, in general, seems to be lower than what "common knowledge" says. Roughly 3% of boys and 12% of girls- much lower than the "1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys" that gets thrown around.

https://www.d2l.org/child-sexual-abuse/prevalence/

About 1 in 7 girls and 1 in 25 boys will be sexually abused before they turn 18*

This seems to match the Finnish data a little better.


Regardless, I guess we're never going to have clear "answers" to think. Any kind of reform will depend to a degree on ideology and faith.
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