I think they're focusing on the wrong problem here...

[mahogany]

I was reading this article on how mentally disabled people aren't really able to testify, and thus help prosecute their attackers, and all I can really think about is this line:

During their lifetimes, research suggests, 83 per cent of women with disabilities are sexually abused; 80 per cent of female psychiatric in-patients will be physically or sexually assaulted.


What??? How is it that this is still allowed to happen? What is someone with a mentally ill relative that is either a danger to herself or others supposed to do? Have her committed, so she can be raped? Clearly, we need female only hospitals staffed exclusively by females.

Evidence rules leave disabled Canadian girls open to sex abuse

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[tatianne.livejournal.com]

I'm enrolling the boys in the local Catholic school this fall. I have to say when the principal told me that the school is all female staff except for the gym teacher, I was relieved. And that's with boys.

[mahogany.livejournal.com]

It's sad that we have to think that way, but you know, that's reality. I had to have a conversation with my older children about how they can never be alone with their friend's fathers, or let any male coach or family friend them get too friendly, or get them alone. It made me so sad to have to have the conversation because there are good people out there, but the sad reality of life is that there are also evil ones out there, and we can never be too careful.