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→Dawkins charge that teaching religion to children is child abuse
and proper way to raise children, given that the number of his wives outnumber his offspring. But
and proper way to raise children, given that the number of his wives outnumber his offspring. But
while he can accept both child abandonment and childhood sexual abuse with dispassionate fortitude, it
while he can accept both child abandonment and childhood sexual abuse with dispassionate fortitude, it
is the horrible crime of raising children in the faith of their fathers that upsets him due to his belief that the fear of Hell is more psychologically damaging than childhood sexual abuse in the long term." - Vox Day, The Irrational Atheism, Darwin's Judas chapter [http://www.voxday.net/mart/TIA_free.pdf] [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 13:06, 25 July 2012 (EDT)
is the horrible crime of raising children in the faith of their fathers that upsets him due to his belief that the fear of Hell is more psychologically damaging than childhood sexual abuse in the long term... Dr. Jonathan R.T. Davidson of the Duke University Medical Center is not quite so blasé about
the psychological damage of sexual abuse, as his 1996 study found that the chances of sexually abused
women attempting suicide were three times higher if they had been sexually abused before the age of
sixteen.28 In the same study, Davidson determined that women who had been sexually assaulted were
six times more likely to attempt suicide than those who had not. As for long-term effects, the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry reported that 67 percent of women over fifty diagnosed with major depression who had been sexually abused as children had made multiple suicide attempts, compared with 27 percent of depressed women over fifty who had not been abused.29 The study also found that middle-aged women who were sexually abused were more likely to suffer at least one other major mental disorder and possess a lifetime history of substance abuse". - Vox Day, The Irrational Atheism, Darwin's Judas chapter [http://www.voxday.net/mart/TIA_free.pdf] [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 13:06, 25 July 2012 (EDT)