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Australian Royal Commission finds 7% of Catholic priests are/were pedophiles
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<blockquote data-quote="Davidnic" data-source="post: 70874076" data-attributes="member: 141748"><p>Molestation is also a problem in broader society so a good thing might be to look at the similarities. For instance a Department if Education study (I seem to remember from 2004) showed that the abuse of children in the American School system is 100 times more likely than abuse by priests. One estimate was that in California alone 422,000 public-school students would be abused by an authority figure before they graduated. This is almost 4 times the possible number that could happen if every Catholic school student in the state was abused. </p><p></p><p>In 2015 the Methodist Church in Britain apologized for nearly 2000 cases of abuse since 1950. </p><p></p><p>Some stats show that since 1950 the Catholic Church in America has has and average of 238 potentially credible accusations of abuse a year since 1950. Some made years later, but data in 2007 showed that it could be averaged to that number. Protestant Churches in America are estimated to have received 260, no data on what was deemed credible. That number is from a (I think June of) 2007 report from the three main insurances companies who handle such claims. </p><p></p><p>The factor seems to be access to children. Team that with what was a nearly global misunderstanding of who can be an abuser and that led to both the inability to accept evidence and the protection of accused authority figures...and you have a serious issue. </p><p></p><p>Now, it has become better in many places. But I think to make any headway on why it happens where it does we need to look at all places it happens at high percentages and take common factors. </p><p></p><p>Abuse in one place does not justify abuse in another. But I think we have to look at common factors. And Celibacy is just not one. Access to Children combined with ignorance of the problem and reluctance to accept that there could be "Good guy/girl abusers" seems to have really made an epidemic that the people to desire to abuse knew enough to exploit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Davidnic, post: 70874076, member: 141748"] Molestation is also a problem in broader society so a good thing might be to look at the similarities. For instance a Department if Education study (I seem to remember from 2004) showed that the abuse of children in the American School system is 100 times more likely than abuse by priests. One estimate was that in California alone 422,000 public-school students would be abused by an authority figure before they graduated. This is almost 4 times the possible number that could happen if every Catholic school student in the state was abused. In 2015 the Methodist Church in Britain apologized for nearly 2000 cases of abuse since 1950. Some stats show that since 1950 the Catholic Church in America has has and average of 238 potentially credible accusations of abuse a year since 1950. Some made years later, but data in 2007 showed that it could be averaged to that number. Protestant Churches in America are estimated to have received 260, no data on what was deemed credible. That number is from a (I think June of) 2007 report from the three main insurances companies who handle such claims. The factor seems to be access to children. Team that with what was a nearly global misunderstanding of who can be an abuser and that led to both the inability to accept evidence and the protection of accused authority figures...and you have a serious issue. Now, it has become better in many places. But I think to make any headway on why it happens where it does we need to look at all places it happens at high percentages and take common factors. Abuse in one place does not justify abuse in another. But I think we have to look at common factors. And Celibacy is just not one. Access to Children combined with ignorance of the problem and reluctance to accept that there could be "Good guy/girl abusers" seems to have really made an epidemic that the people to desire to abuse knew enough to exploit. [/QUOTE]
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