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On Christianity, Fundamentalism, Spanking, And What Constitutes Child Abuse
On 2009-04-11 07:55:13 -0400, Crash Karr said:
All of these conclusions seem to have implications for children placed in a fundamentalist Christian environment. Associated Content, in a May 2007 posting, The Effects of the "No Spanking Law" on Child Abuse in Sweden, discusses a law passed in Sweden in the 1970's that made spanking a civil offence. Before the law, the family violence child death rate in 1970 was 18%. In recent years it has been 0%. By 1981, only 26% of Swedish parents supported spanking. Now it is less than 11%. In 1996, there were 57 reported cases of child abuse per 100,000 people. At the same time in the US that figure stood at 4,500/100,000. http://domesticworkerscreening.com/6...ild-Abuse.html Crashing Karrs has got you a little dizzy, my friend. I don't have an argument with there being a major problem with physical abuse of children by Fundamentalists in America, but your statistics are way beyond reality, and do no good for your credibility. According to the Census, the population of the USA on 7/1/96 was 265,228,572. 26% were children, or 68,959,429. 1.5% were confirmed to have been abused by Child Protective Services, but only 24% of these were physical abuse, yielding a total of 248,254. That gives you a rate of 278 per 100,000. Way to many, but an awfully long ways from your figure of 4,500 per 100,000. May I also point out that if "the family violence death rate in 1970 was 18%," there would have been no living children in Sweden in 6 years? Paul |
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