Between 1980 and 2022, around 15 percent of families in the United States reported to have had an event of incest in the family, while around 46 percent of rape victims who were children were raped by someone in their own family. Only 20 percent of incest victims reported the crime to law enforcement.
Key statistics on incest in the United States from 1980 to 2022
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