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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (780046)	4/15/2014 6:34:43 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576975

<< I would start by filling in important details that were left out of your rosy but inaccurate depiction of modern circumstance....done>> What would those be? ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Repost>>> The dire effects related to destruction of marriage and family and the loss of kinship culture are serious and have far reaching consequences. Not only are the victimization statistics through the roof but the culture of poverty and violence will effect generations as the children's children's children of these poor women experience the consequences. • 63 percent of suicides nationwide are individuals from single-parent families. • 75 percent of children in chemical dependency hospitals are from single-parent families. • More than half of all youths incarcerated in the U.S. lived in one-parent families as a child. California is a hot spot for domestic and international human trafficking because of its large population, international borders, large economy, extensive ports, and metropolitan regions. The average entry age of American minors into the sex trade is 12-14 years old. Many victims are runaway girls who have already suffered sexual abuse as children. California harbors 3 of FBI’s 13 highest child sex trafficking areas in the nation: Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego. Foreign nationals are also brought into the U.S. as slaves for labor or commercial sex through force or fraud. The prevalence and anonymity of the internet has fueled the rapid growth of sex trafficking, making the trade of women and children easier than ever before. 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).