Re: sex based studies on violence...

From: Doug Jones (random@qnet.com)
Date: Mon Jan 10 2000 - 00:13:32 MST


Can you clarify what form of child abuse these stats relate to, physical or
sexual? I suspect that there is a large gender difference in the
perpetrators, with the majority of child sexual abuse being at the hands of
males.

"J. R. Molloy" wrote:
>
> From: phil osborn <philosborn@hotmail.com>
> >Bottom line: it's not politically correct (read economically feasible, when
> >women account for 85% of consumer purchases in the U.S. and the mass media
> >caters to the purchasers of advertized products, right?) to label women as
> >potentially just as violent as men, given opportunity.
>
> In addition, although females perpetrate most of the child abuse in the US, they
> comprise only 3% of those in prison for this crime. America has become a
> centerpiece of anti-male bigotry.
>
> J. R. Molloy
> http://www.ncncfm.8m.com

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