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> it seems UK and US are in the top 5 countries with highest child abuse rates: Though, what that actually means is that UK and US have mechanisms to report,
by ptaipale 12y ago
> it seems UK and US are in the top 5 countries with highest child abuse rates:
Though, what that actually means is that UK and US have mechanisms to report, investigate and prosecute child abuse cases that would be perfectly legal and normal in other places.
In other news, there are about 30 times as many rapes per capita in Sweden as there are in India, or 80 times as many rapes as in Yemen or Syria. That is, rapes that are recorded in statistics. [0]
It should be obvious that this relates to how things are processed, not what actually happens to people.
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics - numbers obviously need to be consumed with larger amounts of NaCl.