Helpful Statistics for Pastors, Priests,
and Lay Ministers
In Exploring the Role of Child Abuse in Later Drug Abuse, Neil Swan, cites “as many as two-thirds of all people in treatment for drug abuse report that they were physically, sexually, or emotionally abused during childhood.”
There are more than 42 million survivors of sexual abuse in America.
National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse
The 2009 stats on domestic violence revealed that one in four women have experienced domestic violence in their lifetime."
The Center of Disease Control and Prevention
One in six American women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape.
www.rainn.org/statistics/index.html
One in three and one in five boys are sexually abused before the age of eighteen.
The Advocacy Center
There is also a correlation between child sexual abuse and human trafficking. Polaris recently conducted and published the National Survivor Study, a research project designed to shed light on the experiences of human trafficking survivors in the U.S. When researching the conditions that make people vulnerable to trafficking the study found that 84 percent of participants experienced sexual abuse at some point in their childhood.
Sexual abuse and human trafficking are not isolated issues. The correlation between sexual abuse and human trafficking is disturbing and alarming, but not surprising. Sexual abuse can be a vulnerability that traffickers exploit and a way for traffickers to assert control over victims. Human trafficking cannot be left out of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and sexual assault cannot be excluded from the conversation about human trafficking."
polarisproject.org/blog/2023/04/sexual-assault-awareness-month-how-does-human-trafficking-fit-in/
An Alarming Human Trafficking Statistic
