There is a lot of difficulty 'controlling' for sexual abuse and rape. These surveys are conducted in high schools, and getting particularly detailed in the questions becomes counter-productive. (If you list off every specific drug - including drugs that don't actually exist - you'll get a whole bunch of people who mark all of them.)
In this particular study they examined kids who identified as queer in total, as well as separated out by sexual abuse, violence experience, harassment experience, and a variety of other fine granularity variables. Some generalities can be made - yes, queer kids appear to report victimization out of proportion - but you can't make a lot of specific statements - no, you can't say sexual abuse *causes* pregnancy, just that adolescent pregnancy is *correlated* with sexual abuse (and other things.) The real big message is - stigma is bad for *all* teens, and we must do more to alleviate or eliminate its effects.
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branchandroot
Yah, sorta..
Date: 2008-12-17 10:00 pm (UTC)In this particular study they examined kids who identified as queer in total, as well as separated out by sexual abuse, violence experience, harassment experience, and a variety of other fine granularity variables. Some generalities can be made - yes, queer kids appear to report victimization out of proportion - but you can't make a lot of specific statements - no, you can't say sexual abuse *causes* pregnancy, just that adolescent pregnancy is *correlated* with sexual abuse (and other things.) The real big message is - stigma is bad for *all* teens, and we must do more to alleviate or eliminate its effects.