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?

I also found this website, but it doesn't break down by religion, and it's only in the United States: 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: 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: 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.

You may have to split this by religion.. Try childwelfare.gov/systemwide/statistics/c....

Be sure to compare percentages and not numbers. I have seen a study (I can't find it now) that indicated that religious people are much more likely to have children than non-religious. So if 75% of children come from religious homes and 60% of child abuse happens in religious homes, then the abuse rates in religious homes are actually lower.

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 jimhopper.com/abstats/#s-statistics 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.

Boy... that's going to be hard. It really depends on what you mean by "religious". 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: nospank.net/bottoms.pdf.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.