Where would I find statistics that compare the amount of child abuse in religious homes to the amount of child abuse in non-religious homes?
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I also found this website, but it doesn't break down by religion, and it's only in the United States:
http://www.childabuse.org/abuse%20stats.html
The link there to national U.S. statistics is wrong. Here is the corrected one, found after a bunch of searches:
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/stats_research/
To make this apply to more than the U.S., you might want to take a look at the World Health Organization's site:
http://www.who.int/topics/child_abuse/en/
Here's a vivid example of what ritualized child abuse can look like in other countries. This page shows some pretty religion-specific abuse--ritualized, not just the dad-looses-temper variety:
http://www.middle-east-info.org/gateway/womenchildabuse/index.htm
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I am very sorry to hear that you were abused. My experience has been the opposite: that the abuse I've heard about were from non-religious homes, but anecdotal evidence doesn't mean anything.
I don't have any statistics. According to one source, statistics don't often indicate much and can be used to mislead. Or as Mark Twain would say, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, d____ed lies, and statistics."
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I've been dealing with CPS (Child Protective Services) for a number of years now. I don't think they keep these kinds of statistics, but you might be able to contact your local Child or Family Services department and ask them.
If you contact a domestic violence shelter (I used to work at one of those as well), you might get some information there. Again, I doubt they keep statistics like that because of how you might define "religious" or "non-religious". It also depends on how you define "abuse". Different people/agencies/governments define it differently.
Here's a paper on abuse and religion: http://www.nospank.net/bottoms.pdf
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Any religion. I'm not singling any one religion out. I've noticed that most of the people I know who were abused as children, such as myself, came from very religious homes (and from a wide variety of religions). I just wondered if there was any kind of statistical evidence to support (or refute) what I've observed.
@megan m I'm sorry that happened to you. But it's really cool that you're doing research and turning it into something positive and productive.
I have no idea how to answer but good luck with your task!