Originally posted by Daz3d-n-Confus3d
How about this for statistics.
According to www.Sex-Offenders.us:
• A child is molested every four seconds. Nearly one out of every three girls and one of every four boys is molested by age 18. This difference in these numbers may be because boys report molestation less frequently than girls.
[edit on 13-10-2008 by Daz3d-n-Confus3d]
7,884,000 People are molested in a year? 13 years makes 102.5 Million. You're saying that a a THIRD Of the united states has been Molested in the last 13 years?
Let's defray that number a bit and assume that it isn't EVERY four seconds, and that there is an increase happening over time... so perhaps 70 Million in the last 13 years? More than one FIFTH?
Dr. Gene Abel estimates that between 1% and 5% of our population molest children.
Let's assume slightly less than average mean between the two at 2%. At 2%, that means there are 6.4 MILLION Child Molesters?
None of these numbers are relevant. I wonder what sample size for the statistics they were using.
Still though. If it's between 1% and 5%, that's a large minority of the United States.


