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Most infants like large, loud things that move. Anything that stimulates their brains and makes them curious about how it works is interesting to a kid with differentiating brain cells. I had a bunch of trucks and school buses that I played with. Oh nos, I must be a boy!

Thanks... a friend of mine gave me a cigarette a few hours ago, and now I remember why I used to smoke in the first place. I'm tempted to see if he's awake so I can get another one. P.S. Ditto, lanugo. My cousins all have kids, and they insist that their boys all naturally just looove trucks...

Wow... tough time to do it, but sounds fun.

I'm about to stab my lab professors one by one.* I was joking about the Wii, though. *I feel like that most of the time when I have to get out of bed before noon, though.

Life in general. I'm really losing my patience with this bullshit. Eating, breathing, sleeping, working constantly... for nothing much but maybe some clothes from a retail store, a facebook page, and a Wii if you're lucky.

No, it's a wonderful, free feeling. Although my mother had me when she was 20 so I'm getting used to it by now.

It would be really nice, if, in this whole Vatican debacle, people would stop spreading false information that seems to downplay the issue. I know I'd really appreciate that. If Bill Donahue would shut up, I for one would be grateful.

See above. Edit: By the way, "Other" up there includes clergy.

Real statistics... well whatdoyaknow! They do exist. And what do they indicate? Well, as of 2008, most of the overall abuse--60%+ from a parent (esp a mother)-- falls under "neglect" or "medical neglect" or "psychological abuse". However, this does not mean that most children who are sexually...

Oh yeah? You did? That should be easy enough to google up... Citation please.

For FUCK'S SAKE. I never said Droid was "excusing" anything. I said the language he was using, and the bogus hearsay "statistics" were the same statistics the Vatican was using to make excuses for itself. Can you people read?

Yeah, statistics from memory! Yay! And quoted from conversations with friends! I'm sorry I don't have time to find you actual statics, but I have a math exam and a biology exam tomorrow. This thread is going to have to wait, alas.

He didn't cite any statistics. He mentioned a guy who "cited statistcs" but didn't give the actual citation. I'm sorry, but if you think that counts, you're the one with intellectual issues...

Any of the ones on here who are still living would work... even then, it would depend on whose payroll they were on... There are several government agencies that would have good statistics on this. The Department of Social Services jumps immediately to mind.

Fine, if we're going to talk citations-- where did Jenkins get his data? You don't get to just present hearsay as data when it comes to data analysis. "I heard this one guy cite some figures, but not where he got them" won't work...

No it's not patently obvious. In statistics there's a "hard" and a "soft" "or". Depending on whether the data was counted using a hard or soft or, the accuracy can be skewed considerably. You seem to assume there was a "hard" or used in the calculations, so that family incidence was counted...

I didn't say he wasn't a serious scholar. He's just not a serious mathematician, nor is he, for that matter, a functionary of any agency that has authoritative statistics on child abuse...at least, not as far as I know of... I can think of about a thousand people off the top of my head who'd I...

Seriously, Droid, suck my dick. "90% of sexual abuse is committed by members of the family or close acquantancies - not professionals." This statistic makes no sense. "Family members" are often "professionals". There's a lot of overlap there. Unless you mean that people are more often abused...

Yeah, but don't forget about the BNP in the U.K. There are ridiculous over-the-top partisans everywhere I think... It's just that ours think Jesus rode a dinosaur and shit...

I'm sorry, but I don't really have time for people who are going to play "let's compare statistics" when that's not the issue- everyone knows there are pedophiles in every profession. So why even bring that up? It's the tactic being used by all of the foremost apologists for the RCC at the...