slander of my beloved affiliate on your elist

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>  > Undoubtedly the disabled are often abused, but who commits such
>>  abuses most often -- family members, acquaintances, strangers,
>>  unionized care-giving workers, non-unionized care-giving workers, or
>  > scabs?  The report above doesn't make that clear.
>
>No, this report does not and I don't know if Dan has broken it down
>into the categories you list.  I do know that Dick Sobsey who is the
>foremost expert of disability and abuse believes that abuse is worse
>in institutions and that getting people out of them into a self
>determined environment like one's own home would greatly reduce the
>abuse that goes on.
>
>Marta

If anyone has a breakdown, I'd like to see it.  I think that the 
disabled may be more often abused by their families than care-giving 
workers, especially when it comes to sexual abuse, just as children 
are more often abused by their family members than baby-sitters, 
child care workers, summer camp leaders, boarding school teachers, 
etc.  I may be mistaken about this, however.  What do you think?

Yoshie