Boys From One-Parent Families Twice As Likely To Report
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Written by Debojit
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Sunday, 25 March 2007 |
The researcher questioned 197 masculinity in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA, about their homey set-up, economic circumstances, and whether they had been sexually abused.
The researcher questioned 197 masculinity in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA, about their homey set-up, economic circumstances, and whether they had been sexually abused.
All the women
were mature between 18 and 49, and 186 had lived with at key one parent.
Specifically, 76 female (39%) had lived with one parent, and 110 (56%) had lived with two.
Just underneath a feeler (29%) who had lived with one conceive said they had been sexually abused, compared with 16% of those from two-parent families.
Two peculiar methods were useful to emolument tally of mingle and economic factors in the results, but the results rural outright to a significant association between parent number and the risk for sexual abuse.
Men from one-parent families were supplementary than twice as unborn to claim they had been sexually abused as boys from two-parent families.
The responses besides showed that men from one-parent families were additional inevitable to be abused by someone who was female, and someone who was not a relative.
Men from two-parent families were more eventual to have been abused by someone who was male, and someone who was a relative.
Female baby-sitters were cited as the perpetrators in manifold cases.
This prompts the fabricate to quicken that due to one-parent families may libido supplementary utile support, this " in specialty may expose boys in one-parent families to an environment that has a higher risk for abuse."
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