Over half of girls of their 20s have skilled sexual violence, Australian Longitudinal Examine on Girls’s Well being discover | The Canberra Instances

Researchers discovered 51 per cent of girls of their 20s, over one-third (34 per cent) of girls of their 40s and over one-quarter (26 per cent) of girls aged 68 to 73 had skilled sexual violence over the course of their lifetimes, based on information from the Australian Longitudinal Examine on Girls’s Well being. Girls now of their 20s and 40s, who had first skilled sexual violence throughout childhood, have been twice as prone to report experiencing sexual violence as adults.