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Originally Posted by Amnorix
Yeah, the trick is you never know whether they're up because they're up, or because REPORTING of them is better. In the old days, there'd be much more of a desire to sweep it under the rug by the victim's family, I suspect.
It's just like the pedophile priest thing. Suddenly, things start to come into the light of day and a previously unknown epidemic is everywhere...
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Sorry, but I'm not buying it... kids were no better at shutting their mouths about this kind of thing in my day, than they are now.
And I dont see why parents would be any less apt to report this 20-30 years ago either, if any concerned parent thinks little johnnys innocence has been tainted, they'd report it in 1980 or today just the same IMO.
I just dont believe that
everything has
always went on just like today and we just hear about more because its the information age... social mores change, things that were once quite taboo are no longer considered as bad, etc.