Did you know?
"One in four girls and one in six boys will be sexually abused before the age of eighteen.”
www.darkness2light.org/know/statistic
“The 2009 stats on domestic violence revealed that one in four women have experienced domestic violence in their lifetime."
The Center of Disease Control and Prevention
“Every eleven minutes Child Protective Services substantiate or find evidence for a claim of child sexual abuse."
R.A.I.N.N.
Does your pastor know?
In Exploring the Role of Child Abuse in Later Drug Abuse, Neil Swan, cites “as many as two-thirds of all people in treatment for drug abuse report that they were physically, sexually, or emotionally abused during childhood.”
"More than eleven years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, an article written by Luke Hansen, S.J., was titled “9/11 Families Struggle to Forgive.”
americamagazine.org
"Sexual abuse and human trafficking are not isolated issues. The correlation between sexual abuse and human trafficking is disturbing and alarming, but not surprising. Sexual abuse can be a vulnerability that traffickers exploit and a way for traffickers to assert control over victims. Human trafficking cannot be left out of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and sexual assault cannot be excluded from the conversation about human trafficking."
polarisproject.org/blog/2023/04/sexual-assault-awareness-month-how-does-human-trafficking-fit-in/
"There is also a correlation between child sexual abuse and human trafficking. Polaris recently conducted and published the National Survivor Study, a research project designed to shed light on the experiences of human trafficking survivors in the U.S. When researching the conditions that make people vulnerable to trafficking the study found that 84 percent of participants experienced sexual abuse at some point in their childhood.”
polarisproject.org/blog/2023/04/sexual-assault-awareness-month-how-does-human-trafficking-fit-in/
Is your faith community aware?
"One in six American women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape. "
www.rainn.org/statistics/index.html
"An article titled “How COVID-19 may increase domestic violence and child abuse,” Ashley Abramson writes, “As the nation grapples with the spread of COVID-19, Americans are being told to go home and stay there . . . But for victims and survivors of domestic violence, including children exposed to it, being home may not be a safe option.”
American Psychological Association. www.apa.org - April 8, 2020