I know some very successful women. I know one who is the CEO of a large corporation; she is married and very much a family oriented person.
>>"We have always had that bad stuff."<<
Not this bad. The worsening conditions can be directly attributed to the loss of kinship culture. Kinship which extends to friends of family was once as common as trees in the forest and was responsible for such things as keeping an eye out for vulnerable members. The only girls/women who were exploited or targeted for victimization were those who were known to be loners... rapidly, as you proudly report, loners are becoming the status quo. Poverty, rape, sexual assaults, and other sorts of victimhood are so common, the issues have fallen away as news worthy items.
Human trafficking is a criminal business that profits from enslaving people for sexual servitude and forced labor. It is the fastest growing and second largest criminal industry in the world today (second only to drug trafficking and tied with illegal arms), according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Children exploited through prostitution report they typically are given a quota by their trafficker/pimp of 10 to 15 buyers per night?Utilizing a conservative estimate, a domestic minor sex trafficking victim ?would be raped by 6,000 buyers during the course of her victimization through prostitution.
– The National Report on Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: America’s Prostituted Children, Shared Hope International, May 2009, page 20.
USA Facts
· Over 24 million women living below the poverty line in the USA.
· In 2010 31.6 % of households headed by single women were poor.
· In 2008 54% of adult women with incomes below the poverty line were single women without children.
· Single mothers are more likely to be poor than anyone.
· Almost a third of black women live below the poverty line.
· 35 percent of households headed by single moms are food insecure.
· Victims of intimate partner violence collectively lose an estimated 8 million paid days of work per year.
· Women below the poverty line are more likely to be diagnosed with depression and other mental health disorders.
· Over 22 million women in the United States have been raped in their lifetime. (National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey 2010)
· Every two minutes, somewhere in America, someone is sexually assaulted. (Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN) calculation based on 2000 National Crime Victimization Survey. Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice)
· Of female rape or sexual assault victims in 2010, 25 percent were assaulted by a stranger, 48 percent by friends or acquaintances, and 17 percent were intimate partners. (National Crime Victimization Survey 2010) Fact #15: Almost 10% of high school students are victims of dating violence each year. (Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance 2009). |
