Breaking the silence about abuse

In a 1994 study at UW- Madison, researchers surveyed 769 male students in grades 7-12 in rural Wisconsin; 52 percent reported engaging in sexually aggressive behavior. This number correlates with Warsaw’s research results that indicate that more than 50 percent of high school boys and 42 percent of high school girls believe that there are times when it is “acceptable for a male to hold a female down and physically force her to engage in intercourse.”