Reading about a recent survey on violence I found the statistics
frightening. You start to wonder what would it be like to live in
such a country. The survey found that approximately 20% of the women
suffered rape, 25% suffered domestic violence. The survey also found
that there are 24 reported cases a minute of rape, violence or
stalking. In the year prior to the survey there were 1 million
reported cases of rape, 6 million reports of men and women victims of
violence and or stalking, and more than 12 million men and women
reported rape, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner.
It also found that 80% of rape
victims were raped before the age of 25, and 35% of those raped
before the age of 18 were also raped as adults. This survey also
found the 1 in 71 men had been raped at some point in their lives
with 25% being raped at the age of 10 or younger.
Where could this land of rape
and violence be? No Western civilised country could come up with such
horrifying figures and the brutal scenario that they paint. Sadly it
is the free democratic peace loving West, the figures are in fact
from America. With such dreadful statistics it is difficult to see
how we can consider our selves as a role model for any our part of
the world.
These figures are from the
Centers for Disease Control's first year of their National Intimate
Partners and Sexual Violence study.
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