Child abuse in India

I saw this BBC news article entitled, Abuse of Indian children 'common'. First I thought they were talking about physical abuse. I know that physical (and emotional) abuse happens in nearly all of 100% of the families in India. Yes, this is going to sound like I'm stereotyping, but this is my experience as it is the experience of many of my Indian friends. Physical abuse is also common in school. I would not be exaggerating in stating that physical abuse is pretty much the norm.

Now, the surprise in the article is this:

Commissioned by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, the study says 53% of the surveyed children reported one or more forms of sexual abuse.

That is huge! More than 1 in 2 kids! That is f****** disgusting. I f******* hate India for being what it is, for being so slow in even admitting it. I'm angry at every one of them hypocrites, and there is a damned huge lot in India, who do not even acknowledge that such things can happen.

In India there's a tradition of denying child abuse. It doesn't happen here is what we normally say. But by remaining silent, we have aided and abetted the abuse of children.

Fuck yeah! We are complete idiots to not see this happen. People who are not conscious of the dangers kids could be exposed to should not be allowed to have kids... heck neuter them! Yes, I'm angry, big time angry.
Reminding myself that sexual abuse is almost always under reported only makes me feel even more angry.

How is this for a statistic that came out of this government funded study:

Two out of every three children in India are physically abused, according to a landmark government study.

Am I the only one who finds anything wrong with this statistic. How is that if 1 in 2 kids are sexually abused, only 2 in 3 kids physcially abused? Where do they come up with these numbers that seem obviously flawed? More fuel to the fire!

They did get one thing right:

a disturbing finding of the study had been that 70% had not reported the abuse to anyone.

Yeah, try reporting that yourself in a society that denies such things ever happen. We consider ourselves morally superior that we refuse to look at our own dirt. The entire country is full of self-righteous snobs who live in self-denial.

I need to lay-off of writing now to cool off... may be I'll try to write when I'm a bit more cool headed.