Marriage is the safest place for women (how much, high school, claims)
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Without bothering to check out your source, the stats are believable and interesting. And, obviously, tragic. But unfortunately they are off topic and irrelevant to this discussion. The survey in the OP was based on females age 12 and older.
The thing that destroys what you're trying to insinuate here is the fact that divorced and separated women have an even higher incidence of sexual assault than never-married females over the age of 12. For the very young girls, it is certainly a matter of their vulnerability and proximity to evil men. And as other studies prove, those girls are most likely vulnerable because they are not living with their married biological parents.
For the divorced and separated women, the driving force is obviously lifestyle, and I'm sure the diligent use of a search engine can reveal the details of the lifestyle choices made by divorcees. Maybe I'll dig up the data myself one of these days.
You should have read your source more closely. Just in case you didn't see the telling post above yours, it begins:
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Originally Posted by artemis agrotera
From the link in the OP:
Of the 45,890 rapes/sexual assaults committed by someone related to the victim, at least half were committed by the victim's spouse and greater than a quarter were committed by an ex-spouse:
You should have read your source more closely. Just in case you didn't see the telling post above yours, it begins:
Which changes absolutely nothing.
Besides, I thought spousal rape was never reported? You people on the anti-family side need to get your stories straight. I can help you set up the conference call.
Besides, I thought spousal rape was never reported? You people on the anti-family side need to get your stories straight. I can help you set up the conference call.
God has 3 way calling? Who is his carrier, T Mobile??
Besides, I thought spousal rape was never reported?
Under-reported.
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Originally Posted by WesternPilgrim
You people on the anti-family side need to get your stories straight. I can help you set up the conference call.
No, that's what you religious zealots do. The rest of us just work from the facts, hence the logical thread of reason that you chalk up to a conspiracy.
Your stats are flawed too.
Sexual assault can happen in marriages too,but they also are under reported.
There is a stigma to that,but its real. But many people dismiss it. Husbands sexually assualt their wives all the time. No means no,whether in a marriage or not. Just because she is your wife doesn't mean she has to have sex every day,or that she is your sex slave.
Sexual assault and plain old assault both happen in marriages, but neither are widly reported. I think if this were figured into these stats, they would reflect a much different picture.
How many women are living alone by choice since they are happy and have absolutely no plans to bring men back into their lives as the ones who were treated them like dirt?
Advocating for women to be in circumstances in which they are statistically safer = "having something against them"?
Considering they are very flawed stats, given that women are not necessarily 'safe' in marriage either and other considerations left out, it is. Stats can be made to prove anything you want by how you prune them.
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