I never knew that so many people were molested as children. In the book, The Working Poor, the author gives a statistic that says that as high as 1 in 4 people in a low income family have been molested. Case in point, the author quotes a little girl who is surprised when her case worker hadn't been raped, the little girl had assumed everyone had been raped. According to latest statistics, there are around 50 million Americans considered, 'low income' if we do the math with the afore mentioned statistics, this means that 12.5 million Americans have been molested as children. Additionally this means that a seperate 12.5 million Americans have molested someone. Holy Shit! Those are high numbers.
This part of the book we read really made poor people seem sub-human. As if all they do is rape or be raped by one another. Although it did seem to give a reason for so many people being poor. I mean, who could expect someone to work hard, or have goals, when they've been raped since ten years old.
This book seems to be a literary form of the movie Prescious. Poor begets poor, and molestation begets molestation?
I have not got to this book yet but I am intrigued even more now by reading your posts. I can't believe that little girl thought everyone had been raped before. That is just horrible. What kind of world do we live in where little girls don't know any better than that and have to grow up in such situations.
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