Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Art Sala wrote: > Eric, I have tremendous repsect for your insight as a photjournalist, > however, I have a hard time believing that 32% of all women are > molested by the age 18. In the US? Definition of molested? Who is > publishing these numbers? Curious... But your point is well taken, > parents are overly cautious, and right or wrong, a photographer > (especially a hobbyist like most of us) should respect this one basic > human instict to protect their young! The figure is ridiculous, of course. Let's start by subtracting the false attention-seeking claims, and then all the rubbish like "oh, but the way he looked at me.....". This sort of number can only originate in the minds of people lobbying some sort of an agenda. Bernard - ----- I remember once covering a conference at Children's Hospital National Medical Center, in D.C., on the subject of sexual abuse. This was - God!- about 20 years ago, before the topic was "hot." The researchers contended then that about 25 percent of all females, and about 15 percent of men, had at one time or another been "abused." The only difficulty with this was that these researchers included what most of us would call "playing doctor" - the "you show me yours and I'll show you mine" in which virtually all children engage - in their "abuse" statistics. That being said, I feel quite uncomfortable engaging in this kind of discussion with what appears to be an all male group, none of whom besides Eric seem to take the subject at all seriously. It is indeed a serious subject and serious problem, and while advocates inflate figures to inflate their budgets - just as photo editors do - I think the reality of the situation is that there is far more really sick stuff going on with children than society has ever acknowledged. B. D.