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This site has some child/teen sexual abuse statistics: https://www.rainn.org/statistics/children-and-teens https://www.rainn.org/statistics/children-and-teens
by prirun 5y ago
This site has some child/teen sexual abuse statistics:
https://www.rainn.org/statistics/children-and-teens https://www.rainn.org/statistics/children-and-teens
It says: "In FY16 alone, Child Protective Services agencies substantiated, or found strong evidence to indicate that, 57,329 children were victims of sexual abuse.(1)"
It also says: "One in 9 girls and 1 in 53 boys under the age of 18 experience sexual abuse or assault at the hands of an adult.(3)"
Number of children in the US: around 75M: https://www.statista.com/statistics/457786/number-of-children-in-the-us-by-age/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/457786/number-of-childre...
This site has statistics on child hunger:
https://www.childrensdefense.org/state-of-americas-children/soac-2021-child-hunger/ https://www.childrensdefense.org/state-of-americas-children/...
It says: "In 2019, more than 1 in 7 children—10.7 million—were food insecure, meaning they lived in households where not everyone had enough to eat"
This last statistic about hunger actually makes sense: 1 in 7 is 10.7M if there are 75M total children.
The earlier statistic that 1 in 9 girls suffer sexual abuse and there were 57K total cases (boys & girls) in 2016, makes no sense. There are ~37M girls under 18 in the US. 1 in 9 would be ~4M cases of female child sexual abuse, not 57K total.
If the 57K total number is correct, then even assuming all victims were female, that would be 1 in 650, not 1 in 9.
No reasonable person condones child abuse of any kind. But exaggerating the magnitude of the problem and monitoring every person's phone on the planet are not IMO good ways of helping to solve the problem.