<story><title>The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longitudinal study</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC3693773/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>I find this to be the most telling stat:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;In a few cases (N &amp;lt; 5) families were dropped from the comparison group because some history of sexual abuse was ascertained.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;So roughly 5% (&amp;lt;5 of 84) of the control group were discovered to have themselves been abused and needed to be dropped from the study.  I was once in a law lecture on medical ethics.  We were discussing genetic testing of newborns and how this could detect incest&amp;#x2F;abuse.  A medical doctor in the class was dead against such testing.  In his experience, amongst pregnant teenagers (17 and younger) about 10% were pregnant by their own fathers&amp;#x2F;brothers.  His opinion was that our society is not ready to deal with this, that such abuse is far more common than anyone is willing to admit.  He actually said: You better build some more prisons before you start testing babies for this.  The OP study seems in line with his numbers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fullstop</author><text>My wife was summoned for jury duty, and the case had to do with sexual abuse. At jury selection time they ask if a prospective juror would have difficulty being impartial because of the nature of the case.  If you were uncomfortable discussing the matter, you could ask to be taken aside to discuss without the others in the room hearing it.&lt;p&gt;Out of a few dozen people, seven women left the room to explain why they could not be impartial, some of them returning in tears.  They weren&amp;#x27;t gone for a short while, either, many of them took 20 or 30 minutes before returning to the court room. One of them was called back out of the room at the very end, and my wife suspects that she was actively being abused and this was an opportunity to seek help without the abuser being present.&lt;p&gt;This isn&amp;#x27;t something that I have to personally worry about if I&amp;#x27;m by myself, but it&amp;#x27;s something that so many women &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt; have to worry about all the time. I can&amp;#x27;t even imagine the burden that women must carry.</text></comment>
<story><title>The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longitudinal study</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC3693773/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>I find this to be the most telling stat:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;In a few cases (N &amp;lt; 5) families were dropped from the comparison group because some history of sexual abuse was ascertained.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;So roughly 5% (&amp;lt;5 of 84) of the control group were discovered to have themselves been abused and needed to be dropped from the study.  I was once in a law lecture on medical ethics.  We were discussing genetic testing of newborns and how this could detect incest&amp;#x2F;abuse.  A medical doctor in the class was dead against such testing.  In his experience, amongst pregnant teenagers (17 and younger) about 10% were pregnant by their own fathers&amp;#x2F;brothers.  His opinion was that our society is not ready to deal with this, that such abuse is far more common than anyone is willing to admit.  He actually said: You better build some more prisons before you start testing babies for this.  The OP study seems in line with his numbers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hkt</author><text>Similar story here except with journalism: I did a course in media law where it was explained that victims of sex crimes always get lifelong anonymity. Journalists must avoid &amp;quot;jigsaw identification&amp;quot;, eg giving away details that might identify the victim.&lt;p&gt;This means in cases of incest it is impossible to report the incest element because it is too easy to identify the victim if you say &amp;quot;x raped his daughter&amp;quot;. So it appears in the press as though attacks are random, when actually a shocking number (10% seems conservative) are in the family.&lt;p&gt;As a sibling comment says, it is chilling.</text></comment>