simlarteveb wrote:
"about 1 in 4 people are molested in this country (I believe),"
where did you get that statistic? not saying it's wrong or not because I don't know but it just seems awfully high to me.
"Child sexual abuse is a significant public health problem in the United States and across the world. In the United States one out of three females and one out of five males have been victims of sexual abuse before the age of 18 years."
Official Citation:
Dominquez, R. Z., Nelke, C.F. and Perry, B.D. Child Sexual Abuse in: Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment Vol 1.(David Levinson, Ed.) Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks pp 202-207, 2002