Good news my friend. I have now looked at th study. The authors say they didn't want to look at sexual abuse in the study. So they did not look at th association between adoption and sexual abuse.
They also did not look at family wealth. Or "SES" as they put it.
This pretty much invalidates the conclusions of the study since we know that adoption is difficult and expensive and adoptive parents on average are wealthier that non adoptive parents.
We also know that low family wealth predicts "maltreatment" of children.
It’s not good news, I’d love if there was more information available, but that is a problem with these kinds of studies.
I saw that there was a very low statistic of abuse for Asian families, which seems strange to me, knowing so many Asian people that were abused. That tells me that the reporting of abuse in Asian families is low, it goes under the radar. Which is expected, Asian families are very heavily taught to never reveal the problems within their households, often in a psychologically damaging way.
I would believe that a lot of sexual abuse by biological families goes unreported too, since that is something many people would be too embarrassed or traumatized to share. Abuse is horrible, and adding incest to it also can make it harder to report.
The group least likely to report, according to the studies I have seen, are boys who are victims of homosexual abuse.
They are also the ones who are the least likely to be abused by a biological parent, and the ones who suffer the worst most violent sexual abuse.
Good news my friend. I have now looked at th study. The authors say they didn't want to look at sexual abuse in the study. So they did not look at th association between adoption and sexual abuse.
They also did not look at family wealth. Or "SES" as they put it.
This pretty much invalidates the conclusions of the study since we know that adoption is difficult and expensive and adoptive parents on average are wealthier that non adoptive parents. We also know that low family wealth predicts "maltreatment" of children.
It’s not good news, I’d love if there was more information available, but that is a problem with these kinds of studies.
I saw that there was a very low statistic of abuse for Asian families, which seems strange to me, knowing so many Asian people that were abused. That tells me that the reporting of abuse in Asian families is low, it goes under the radar. Which is expected, Asian families are very heavily taught to never reveal the problems within their households, often in a psychologically damaging way.
I would believe that a lot of sexual abuse by biological families goes unreported too, since that is something many people would be too embarrassed or traumatized to share. Abuse is horrible, and adding incest to it also can make it harder to report.
The group least likely to report, according to the studies I have seen, are boys who are victims of homosexual abuse. They are also the ones who are the least likely to be abused by a biological parent, and the ones who suffer the worst most violent sexual abuse.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00979068
So any way we try to twist this the pattern seems quite clear.
It is because of this obvious pattern that so few studies on this is published. When reality is not politically correct, reality gets cancelled
How are they least likely to report if they have the statistics of them? How do those studies work?
The study I linked you had a population of adults who answered questions about childhood sexual abuse anonymously.
That is probably the best way of studying the issue.
Men who reported to have been sexually abused by men as children were the group who was the least likely to have reported the crime at the time