Statistics tell a chilling story
In a Patriot Ledger
survey of 527 South Shore high
school students conducted
for this series, one in five said they knew someone at their school who was
forced to have
sex by a friend or date and did not report it to police. Seven
percent of boys in the survey said it’s OK to
force a
girl out
on a date to have sex. That compares to only 4 percent of boys who said it
was OK in a 1993 Patriot Ledger teen dating survey that asked the same question.Twenty percent of boys in the new survey said it is OK or sometimes OK to
force a girl to have sex if they are “going together” and have had
sex before. Fifteen percent of boys said the same is true if a girl consented
but then changed her mind.Sixteen percent of Massachusetts high school girls have experienced sexual
contact against their will,
according to the 1999 Massachusetts Youth Risk
Behavior Survey.More than half of all rape and sexual assault victims are females 25 or
younger, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.Write your abstract here.
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