Monday, November 07, 2005

an all too often occurence

a very sad and disturbing statistic i just learned:

"sexual abuse occurs in 1 of every 3 girls under the age of 14, and 1 out of every 7 boys."

wow. i knew it was bad, but not that bad. that's quite an eye opener.

3 comments:

Mark "Sleeve" Smyers said...

that is one of the worst things i have ever heard.

Katie said...

yea, tell me about it. not exactly an exciting post - but a realistic view of today's society, i guess (although i don't think the statistic is in America only). i think more people should know this number -- maybe then more of an effort would be put forth to help prevent it, or at least raise some awareness about it's prevalence. it may help explain the fragilness of so many people in this world -- they've already had their lives turned upside down and broken as little children. so sad...

Katie said...

It makes my heart hurt.