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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Child abuse and gender
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Date: Mon, 20-May-85 15:41:39 EDT
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[If you've seen this article before, sorry.  This is a correction.]

> Just sit in on a child abuse court case.  Usually it will be the father who
> is providing the abuse...

That's funny.  My SO recently completed training as a volunteer rape crisis
counselor.  In the training they learned about many sorts of violence other
than rape, as well; one of the things that she said surprised her was that
the majority of child abuse is perpetrated by women, not by men.

Note that I am drawing no particular conclusions from this; it could well be
that men have a propensity to child abuse equal to or greater than that of
women, but that the difference lies in the fact that most children still
spend more time in the care of women than in the care of men.  Also, she
didn't say whether sexual abuse of children was included in the statistics
she saw (as opposed to non-sexual violence and simple neglect, which are far
more common than sexual abuse).

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