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The Worthy Adversary (blog)
September 23, 2020
By Joelle Casteix
What if the cornerstone of our conventional wisdom about the victims of the Catholic Church and clergy sex abuse crisis was wrong?
What if, in a statistically viable sample of survivors of abuse in the Catholic Church, 50% of respondents were female? What if you also knew that this result is almost statically impossible to achieve with the conventional wisdom, which says that boys outnumber girls four to one?
Would that change how you, the church, advocacy groups, and the general public respond to the crisis?
The results of my Survivors Insight Survey are in. You can read the white paper here.
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