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How’s this for a sad indictment of society? Eighty percent of female sex abuse victims are abused by someone known to the child or the child’s family. So much for family and community …
It’s also estimated that one out of every four girls will be sexually abused before they become adults.
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America has the highest STD infection rate in the industrialised world, with twenty million new cases every year. American citizens aged between fifteen and twenty-four account for about fifty percent of all new STD cases.
It costs the nation almost sixteen billion dollars a year to treat these sexually transmitted diseases.
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This might disturb the religiously minded: nearly one-fifth of all adults in the US have no religious affiliation. According to the Census Bureau, this number more than doubled between 1990 and 2008.
Eighty-eight percent of these heathens aren’t looking for religion and, if interest in Christianity continues to fall at its current rate, the percentage of Americans attending church in 2050 will be half of what it is today.
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A study found that a staggering eighty-six percent of abortions are done for the sake of convenience.
Planned Parenthood also receives hundreds of millions of dollars from the federal government each year and reportedly performs over 300,000 abortions a year. Some of their clinics sell aborted baby parts to medical researchers.
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America has the highest divorce rate in the world by a good margin. This probably won’t come as a surprise to anyone interested in celebrity culture as most of them treat marriage like a game of musical chairs.
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There are over half a million homeless people in our society – and a quarter of these are children. Economic hardship is usually the reason, although domestic violence is a leading cause of homelessness in women.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has had its budget slashed in recent decades, meaning the amount of low-income homes has decrease by 10,000 each year. Because of this, many of our homeless live in cars, parks and bus or train stations.
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Pornography has become an extremely prevalent part of modern culture, with thirty percent of all internet traffic now going to adult sites.
Seventy percent of young men aged eighteen to twenty-four visit at least one naughty site each month, and the average high school boy spends two hours typing with one hand every week.
Officials also estimate that 600,000 Americans trade pornographic images of children online and a survey revealed that twenty-five percent of all American employees with internet access visit porn sites during work hours.
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Every year, at least 8,000 US soldiers and veterans commit suicide – over twenty-two a day. More than a quarter of these deaths are attributed to side effects from prescription and psychotropic drugs, so, technically, medications are killing more American soldiers than Al-Qaeda.
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In addition to America’s over-reliance on antidepressants, nearly seventy percent of American citizens regularly take at least one prescription drug. And twenty percent of these are on at least five prescription drugs.
Americans spend more than 280 billion dollars on prescription drugs each year.
