Sexual Abuse
What Life Patterns Protect Against Sexual Violence?
Research points to ten life patterns that reduce vulnerability and help protect women from sexual violence.
Jacob Z. Hess
March 30, 2026
Research points to ten life patterns that reduce vulnerability and help protect women from sexual violence.
Research shows sexual violence is more likely where women are isolated, unsupported, undereducated, unmarried, and surrounded by addiction.
Child safety hinges on relationships, routines, and accountability layers—not impassioned slogans or single-policy adjustments.
What the evidence says about porn exposure, delinquent peers, and impulsivity as repeated predictors of child victimization?
Beyond offenders, research points to enabling conditions that make abuse easier to commit and hide.
The Epstein files provide a stress test for decades of anti-Mormon conspiracy theories. What can believers and critics alike take from the lack of damning church revelations?
Are Surviving Mormonism’s stories typical? Comparative data show rare failures in an institution ahead on reform.
How can victims of sexual trauma find healing and recovery? The answer lies in the transformative power of mindfulness and the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Pornography is toxic to relational and sexual health. Recovering from the relational health crisis of pornography involves forsaking pornography and its toxic scripts, regaining and deepening our intimate empathy, and learning and committing to safely hold one another.
Are Latter-day Saints more prone to child abuse? Research reveals that the community has significantly lower abuse rates due to effective protective measures.
What causes lower abuse rates among Latter-day Saints? Geographic organization, focus on family, and female involvement create a safer environment.
Are Latter-day Saints more likely to abuse kids? Through statistical analysis of the BSA abuse case, we have our first data-supported answer to the question.