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To: wideminded
In other words either there are a huge number of abusive lesbian foster mothers, or the figures quoted in the article are wrong.

No. The problem is the way it is written. Perhaps intentionally. It did not say that 69% of the abuse was by mothers and 14% by fathers. There could have been 10,000 cases of abuse by fathers and 14% of those 10,000 cases was of their foster sons. There might have only been 20 cases of abuse by mothers as contrasted with the thousands by fathers.

Somehow I think the MSM doesn't want to acknowledge that thousands of gays are abusing young boys.They don't want you to know the true incidence of this abuse - hence they provide confusing statistics.

56 posted on 03/02/2005 1:28:29 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane
It did not say that 69% of the abuse was by mothers and 14% by fathers. There could have been 10,000 cases of abuse by fathers and 14% of those 10,000 cases was of their foster sons. There might have only been 20 cases of abuse by mothers as contrasted with the thousands by fathers.

But it did say 34% of the sexual abuse committed by both fathers and mothers was homosexual in nature, with figures of 14% and 69% for fathers and mothers individually. Using a little algebra I was able to show that this implies that 74% of the homosexual abuse was by mothers.

If I took your figures, there would be 1400 cases of homosexual abuse committed by fathers (14% of 10000) and about 14 committed by mothers (69% of 20). Then the combined percentage of homosexual abuse cases would be 1414/10020 or roughly 14.1%.

But the article says that 34% of all abuse cases were homosexual in nature. Either the figures in the article or wrong or more women must be abusing foster daughters.

59 posted on 03/02/2005 1:52:28 PM PST by wideminded
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