Statistics in Utah still reflect a depressive, judgmental, suppressive, negative social atmosphere of control. The prevalence of poor mental health: 41.4% 1st of 50 states, Birthrate per 1,000: 21.2 1st of 50, Physical exercise: 83.1% 2nd of 52 (US Census 2004-2009).
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CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT
In 2005, Utah had 32,203 total referrals for child abuse and neglect. Of those, 21,052 reports were referred for investigation. 7
In 2005, 8,173 children were substantiated or indicated as abused or neglected in Utah, a rate of 17.7 per 1,000 children, and representing a 3.4% decrease from 2004. Of these children, 20.7% were neglected, 14.7% were physically abused, and 19.3% were sexually abused. 8
In 2005, 10 children died as a result of abuse or neglect in Utah. 9
In 2005, 2,285 children in Utah lived apart from their families in out-of-home care, compared with 2,108 children in 2004. In 2005, 22.5% of the children living apart from their families were age 5 or younger, and 27.4% were 16 or older. 10
Of the children in out-of-home care in 2005, 63.5% were white, 4.7% black, 22.5% Hispanic, 5.7% American Indian/Alaskan Native, and 3.5% children of other races and ethnicities. 11
Divorces per 1,000 Population Utah-4.60 MA-2.40 NY -3.20 NJ-3.0
Murder per 100,000 Pop. Utah-3.90 NH-1.70 IO-1.70 ND-0.90
Rape per 100,000 Pop. Utah-42.70 NY -23.70 CA-33.40 VA-27.20
*Source US Census Bureau
Salt Lake Tribune, Nov 23, 1998—A9
FBI Report: Crime Falls Nationally, But Climbs Again in Utah
As the nation celebrates a six-year decrease in serious crime, Utah’s crime rate went up—again.
An FBI report released Sunday showed that serious violent and property crimes went down 3 percent nationally. But crime in Utah went up 3.8 percent in 1997, continuing a four-year-trend.
Not only is the state’s crime rate climbing, but more Utahns on average are victims of crime.
Nationally, an average of 4,923 out of 100,000 are affected by crime. In Utah, the number is 5,661 people— 13 percent higher than the national rate.
Utah was one of 15 states whose crime rates increased in 1997.
In Salt lake City, 11,969 people out of 100,000 were victims of crime in 1997.
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Salt lake Tribune, Feb 17, 2004
“...The 2004 Utah Domestic Violence Annual Report, created by the state Domestic Violence Cabinet Council...In 2001, the report notes, Utah’s rate of females murdered by males in one-on-one incidents was 23% higher than the corresponding national rate.”
Utah: Salt Lake City
Nearly half of the 131 women killed between 1994 and 1999 in Utah were slain by husbands or boyfriends, according to a report released by state health department officials. They urged judges, prosecutors and clergy to pay more attention to the signs of domestic violence and to intervene before it escalates. USA Today
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Utah Rape Statistics—2003
Rape Crime in Utah Well Above National Average
A federal report shows that one in five adult women in Utah—or a total of 157,000 women in the state—has been forcibly raped at least once in her lifetime. The report comes from the South Carolina-based National Violence Against Women Prevention Research Center, giving Utah the top spot in the continental United States for its estimated percentage of rape victims. “Our findings clearly demonstrate the fact that Utah has a substantial rape problem,” said the report from the research group, which was established and is partly funded by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Utah has highest rate of “Food Insecurity”
Child poverty rate up
Utah leads nation in bankruptcy
Salt Lake Tribune
11-24-03
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Do you need more evidence your assumption is wrong?
HEBREWS 11:3
I post these graphics because:
(1) I have heard what former ldsers and what well-read researchers have said about lds beliefs., i.e. the lds believes that God did not create everything out of nothing.
(2) I have had CURRENT lds people tell me that what I am saying is true, but that I shouldn't say it, because they feel uncomfortable about discussing the issue and its implications.
(3) I believe that God's WORD is living and eternal and that He can use it to scrape away false doctrines from the souls of people.
(4) I post these because the false doctrines of human pre-existence and of eternal marriage are FALSE. They are useful hooks to get people to stay in the lds, but those doctrines are USELESS.
Why?
(A.) They diminish the creative power of God, that He created our spirits out of nothing, and
(B.) the eternal marriage doctrine defames and contradicts the teaching that Christians WILL be married in eternity. We will be married to Christ .... but NOT to each other.