riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (05/20/85)
[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). --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.") --- {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddle --- riddle@ut-sally.UUCP, riddle@ut-sally.ARPA, riddle%zotz@ut-sally