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Unfortunately your study is notably missing a category where abusing children is legal: child marriage. It's still legal to marry children in many states. [edi
by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
Unfortunately your study is notably missing a category where abusing children is legal: child marriage. It's still legal to marry children in many states.
[edited for clarity: I'm agreeing with the poster I'm responding to in that most child sexual abuse occurs at the hands of hetereosexual abusers, to the point where it's normalized through legal child marriage, which is almost entirely heterosexual, and aren't usually considered in studies on child sexual abuse.]
- ceejayoz 4y agoI'd fully support a ban on child marriages, but I'm not able to find anything indicating same-sex child marriages are unusually prevalent. Where in the study are you seeing they ruled out underage marriages from the cohort?
- PuppyTailWags 4y agoSorry, I'm saying I agree with you: hetereosexual abuse of children is way more common than homosexual abuse, to the point where marrying children is legal and is almost entirely heterosexual. I'm saying unfortunately this kind of child sexual predation is rarely counted as part of the studies because of how normalized it is.
- ceejayoz 4y agoAh, we agree in that case.
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