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In today's (Wednesday) A. M. Costa Rica there is an article on a safe house for girls. From the article..........

“One of the biggest transitional things that leads them into prostitution is abuse at home,” she said. Her goal is to start integrating a program that changes this culture of abuse.

“Culturally there needs to be a lot of change because you don't want to say its accepted, but when one in four of the K*ds is being abused, what other word do you use?” she said.

Really? 1 in 4???

I have difficulty squaring this with the way I feel about my daughter. What is wrong with this culture that the men hurt their girls and the mothers seem powerless???

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Can this statistic be accurate?

Impossible to verify its accuracy from what is printed in the article as there is no backup information provided.

I would think, and this is conjecture on my part, that it is at best an anecdotal statement and at worst a statistic made up by the women who uttered it.

It reminds me of the statement you hear thrown out occasionally "50% of the people who move to Costa Rica move back home within the first year". No one who mutters those words has ever been able to identify the source of that statistic. So it leads to the question:

Can this statistic be accurate?

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No way those numbers are right.

People can and do manipulate unprovable statistics to help them make their case.

It's true...57% of people do this.

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What's the old saying:

"There are lies, damn lies, and statistics....."

(There is no doubt in my mind that some girls enter prostitution because of abuse at home, and no doubt that many don't have any real education, marketable skills, and figure one or two secessions a week pays better than 40 hours on their feet as cashiers at Mas y Menos I have no information other than common sense, and the stat thrown out about 1 in 4 being abused would seem high to me, but who knows? )

Bear in mind "abuse" not only includes physical abuse (beatings, sexual) but also includes emotional, mental/verbal, and neglect.

mh

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And watch the rates skyrocket for this generation of K*ds 15-25. I had/have great parents, but they were stern and let me know what and when I did wrong. Do that today, K*ds cry "emotional abuse".

I have many friends who had a childhood much tougher than I, yet they still respect their parents. Not so much these days with the next gen.

IMO, big difference between calling your K*D out when they do wrong, and actually being "mental/verbal/emotionally abusing to them". I still believe that the parents that turn the blind eye are doing much more harm than the ones that actually give a Phuck.

My point was the 1 in 4 statistic quoted in the OP is in all likelihood not what we think it means. The OP may have thought the article claimed 1 in 4 suffer some sort of sexual abuse.

The article was probably stating 1 in 4 suffer from some form of abuse meeting the broader definition I posted earlier.

mh

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