According to a voluntary survey cited in the report, 48% of Caribbean adolescent girls surveyed described their own "sexual initiation" as forced.
That is from "Cost of Caribbean Crime Grows," 4 May 2007, The Wall Street Journal. The Caribbean is now the most crime-ridden part of the world, according to the World Bank.
Could it be that crimes are more likely to be reported in the Caribbean as compared to elsewhere, due for example to a better-functioning legal system?
The full article is here.
The article doesn’t mention that Barbados has one the lowest crime rates in the world. Understanding what makes Barbados different could be of tremendous importance to policy makers across the Caribbean as well as in the US.
Doesn’t matter to our ruling caste: “Come on in, gang. All kinds of gangs. Crime? We’ll build walls. As long as we’re safe behind our walls, tant pis to the country as a whole.”
22.2% of girls have had sex at all, so that is 48% of 22.2%. (And lines up, more or less, with the 10.5% who claim to have been sexually abused.)
This from a survey in which over 25% of male respondents (54.8% report “First intercourse” as having occured prior to age 10(under 10 at first intercourse) of 51.9% who had had intercourse). Reliability is an issue.
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