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Children's Exposure to Violence: A Comprehensive National Survey David
Finkelhor, Heather Turner, Richard Ormrod, Sherry Hamby, and Kristen
Kracke ....The survey confirms that most of our society's children are
exposed to violence in their daily lives. More than 60 percent of the
children surveyed were exposed to violence within the past year,
either directly or indirectly (i.e., as a witness to a violent act; by
learning of a violent act against a family member, neighbor, or close
friend; or from a threat against their home or school) (for full
details on these and other statistics cited in this Bulletin, see
Finkelhor et al., 2009). Nearly one-half of the children and
adolescents surveyed (46.3 percent) were assaulted at least once in
the past year, and more than 1 in 10 (10.2 percent) were injured in an
assault; 1 in 4 (24.6 percent) were victims of robbery, vandalism, or
theft; 1 in 10 (10.2 percent) suffered from child maltreatment
(including physical and emotional abuse, neglect, or a family
abduction); and 1 in 16 (6.1 percent) were victimized sexually.

More than 1 in 4 (25.3 percent) witnessed a violent act and nearly 1
in 10 (9.8 percent) saw one family member assault another. Multiple
victimizations were common: more than one-third (38.7 percent)
experienced 2 or more direct victimizations in the previous year, more
than 1 in 10 (10.9 percent) experienced 5 or more direct
victimizations in the previous year, and more than 1 in 75 (1.4
percent) experienced 10 or more direct victimizations in the previous
year.

Reports of lifetime exposure to violence were generally about one-
third to one-half higher than reports of past-year exposure, although
the difference tended to be greater for less frequent and more severe
types of victimization. (For example, more than three times as many
respondents reported being victims of a kidnapping over their
lifetimes as did in the past year.) Nearly seven in eight children
(86.6 percent) who reported being exposed to violence during their
lifetimes also reported being exposed to violence within the past
year, which indicated that these children were at ongoing risk of
violent victimization. The reports of lifetime exposure also indicate
how certain types of exposure change and accumulate as a child grows
up; nearly one in five girls ages 14 to 17 (18.7 percent) had been the
victim of a sexual assault or attempted sexual assault, and more than
one-third of all 14- to 17-year-olds had seen a parent assaulted.
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The International Violence Against Women Act: What Are We Waiting For?
by Patricia T. Morris
describes abuse

10/13/09 by the Women's International Perspective....According to the
United Nations at least one in three women and girls around the world
is beaten or sexually abused in her lifetime and some four million
women and girls are trafficked annually into forced marriage,
prostitution, or slavery. At least 60 million girls who would
otherwise be alive are missing, mostly in Asia, as a result of sex-
selective abortions, infanticide, or neglect. According to the World
Health Organization, between 10-52% of women report having been
assaulted by an intimate partner. The UNFPA estimates that 130 million
girls and women around the world have undergone female genital cutting
(FGC) and at least 2 million girls every year - nearly 6,000 per day -
are at risk of undergoing FGC. Despite increased public awareness and
two recent UN Security Council Resolutions (1820 and 1888), rape is
increasingly used as a weapon of war in armed conflicts. The UN
reports that during the Rwanda genocide between 200,000 and 500,000
women were raped, and in Bosnia during the conflict there between
20,000 and 50,000 women were raped. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/10/13-9

describes crimes

Survivors of Extreme Abuse - The Awful Rowing Toward Social
Emancipation
For survivors of extreme abuse, the disclosure of the crimes they
experienced and the public identification of the perpetrators of those
crimes can be monumentally daunting tasks. Among the impediments they
may face in their pursuit of personal and social justice are their own
psychological challenges, due to the complex, and sometimes
debilitating effects of having experienced severe trauma, the dangers
inherent in exposing criminals or criminal networks, and social denial
of their plight on almost every level....
IMAGINE
Survivors have an invaluable gift to share with society: intimate
knowledge of crimes perpetrated in their midst, and the criminals who
committed them. Their knowledge and insight could theoretically lift
the great rock of our cultural denial and officially sanctioned
version of reality, and expose the dark and dangerous world of child,
drug and arms traffickers, rapists, child pornographers, serial
killers, cults, secret societies and government corruption. And that
exposure would surely mark the beginning of the end of the widespread
abuses that plague our society now. But that doesn't happen.
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