Almost half of all rape is non reported to authorities.

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Jude wrote:

Anybody who has worked in any rape crisis center can tell you about
step-fathers.
They are probably the most dangerous group when it comes to molesting
children

THAT is a legitmate statement. Unfortunately, this also includes birth
fathers. Heterosexual men are the main and greatest number of
molesters, a fact CONSTANTLY ignored by homophobes, and anybody that
has any sympathy toward the despised minority of gay people can
figure out why quite quickly.

Birth fathers are certainly not exempt but step-fathers seem to be
offenders far more often.
Perhaps it's just that the idea of incest adds a layer that some will not
cross that makes the difference.

In 1992 and 1993, women were the victims of 500,200 rapes and/or sexual
assaults. Of these, 34 percent were completed rapes, 28 percent attempted
rapes, 28 percent sexual assault with serious injury, 5 percent sexual
assault with minor injury, and 15 percent other sexual assaults (Bachman and
Saltzman, 1995).

Every minute in the United States, 1.3 adult women are raped; 78 women are
raped every hour; 1,871 women are raped every day; 56,916 women are raped
every month; 683,000 women are raped every year. (Crime Victims Research and
Treatment Center of the National Victim Center, 1992).

The rate of sexual assault in the United States is the highest of any
industrialized nation in the world (Reiso and Roth, 1993).

Twenty percent of adult women, 15 percent of college women, and 12 percent
of adolescent girls have experienced sexual abuse and assault during their
lives (Koss, 1988).

Compared to all other age groups, women age 19 to 29 reported more violence
by their partners. Women age 12 to 18 were more likely than women older than
18 to report violence against them by friends or acquaintances. In general,
women age 65 or older were the least likely to report an act of violence
(Bachman and Saltzman, 1995).

Twenty-nine percent of all rapes occur when the victim is less than 11 years
old and 32 percent of rapes occur when the victim is between the ages of 11
and 17 (Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center of the National Victim
Center, 1992).

Twenty-nine percent of all rapes occur when the victim is less than 11 years
old and 32 percent of rapes occur when the victim is between the ages of 11
and 17 (Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center of the National Victim
Center, 1992).

Women between the ages of 16 and 24 were three times more likely to be raped
than women in other age cohorts (Harlow, 1991).

78 percent of rapes involve a person the victim knew -- husbands/ex-
husbands (9 percent), fathers/step-fathers (11 percent), boyfriends/ex-
boyfriends (10 percent), other relatives/friends/neighbors (29) percent)
(National Victim Center, 1992).

82 percent of women raped or sexually assaulted in 1992-1993 by a lone
offender were victimized by a spouse, ex-spouse, partner, friend,
acquaintance or relative (Bachman and Saltzman, 1995).

One in six American women has been the victim of an attempted or completed
rape, and 10% of sexual assault victims are men. (Rainn.org.)

Almost half of all rape is non reported to authorities.



http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/crimoff.htm

http://www.rainn.org/docs/statistics/ncvs2004.pdf?PHPSESSID=545772b8d849fbfa91f653c5f484ab84

http://www.csom.org/pubs/mythsfacts.html

Last, but not least, about the children specifically (realize that these are
just statistics from REPORTED incidences)

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/saycrle.pdf

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Rep. Debra Maggart, R-Hendersonville, said she still believes

homosexual

couples should not be allowed to adopt children. In fact, in addition

to

e-mail correspondence with a master's student at Vanderbilt publicized
recently, in which she said as much, she has also said homosexual

couples

may molest the children they adopt.

[snip unsubstantiated homophobic BS]

Don't get your knickers in a twist about gay parenting. I don't think
that
a day goes by here without the TV news mentioning the arrest of some

guy,

described as "the mother's boyfriend" for some particularly heinous
example
child abuse or child abuse that results in murder. I've never seen such

a

story about a gay couple.

The moment there is watch them scream it from the roof tops......hundreds

of

heterosexual cases on the news each year, but one homosexual case and they
were right. Reason isn't in their friend

And the "boyfriend" end of another heterosexual couple was booked for the
murder of the woman's toddler yesterday.

I wonder if the dynamic in a homosexual couple would tend to help protect a
child from the abuse of one spouse? I know I've seen quite a number of
cases of heterosexual couples with abusive stepfather/boyfriend where Mom
KNEW what was being done to the child but did nothing to stop it until a
teacher or doctor figured out what was wrong and got the police involved.
Would a gay partner react differently?

Uh, yeah, because we'd never get into that situation to begin with.
When same-sex couples have children, the children are planed with much
forethought and effort. The children are loved and wanted.
Children who are loved and wanted tend not to have parents who beat
the ***** out of them or murder them.

Bonnie! How ya doing?!?

If it wasn't so tragic, it would be funny that the hets look for ways
to blame all the worlds problems on gays.

Therefore they totally miss
the real problem. They should work on cleaning out thier own back yard
before worring about thier neighbors.