Clergy and Educator Abuse Survivors Empowered!	Some Sad Statistics on Abuse Provided by WASH (Women and Men Against Sexual Harassment and Other Abuses)

Abuse is common throughout every segment of society and the Seventh-day Adventist Church is not excluded.

There are many documented cases of abuse within the Seventh-day Adventist Church:

• 30% of women in a Seventh-day Adventist Church have been abused.
• 50% of girls at an area Seventh-day Adventist youth camp revealed they had been abused by a father or relative.

Percentage of those responding to the Southeastern California Conference of SDA survey* who have experienced family crises:

• 24% have been divorced or permanently separated.
• 30% were physically abused at home before age 18.
• 43% were verbally or emotionally abused at home before age 18.
• 16% experienced incest at home before age 18.
• 13% have abused drugs or alcohol.
• 37% have lived with a drug or alcohol abuser.
• 7% have attempted suicide.
• 27% have had suicidal inclinations.

Sources: Oregon Conference of SDA - Family Life Department *Adventist Review - August 18, 1994.

Only by recognizing the problem can we hope to attack it!

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Additional Statistics

• Statistics, research, and resources on child abuse
• Domestic violence statistics for U.S.
• Emergency physicians and sexual involvement with patients: an Ontario survey
• Ethical complaints are up in past decade
  APA Ethics Office receives about 400 new complaints per year, up from 288 in 1985.
• Sex Abuse of Military Women
  Alarming rates of harassment, rape reported
• The Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence
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