US Rape & Sexual Violence Statistics

* Sex crimes against children : Down 53 percent between 1992 and 2006.
* Abortion : The abortion rate has dropped by about 25 percent since 1993.
* Teen pregnancy : In 2009, teen pregnancy hit its lowest rate in the 70 years that the federal government has been tracking the statistic.
* Divorce : The U.S. divorce rate is at its lowest level since 1970.
* Domestic violence : The rate of reported domestic violence in the U.S. dropped by more than half between 1993 and 2004.
* Rape : The
forcible rape [sic] rate in the U.S. has dropped from 41.1 per 100,000 people
in 1990 to 28.7 in 2009. That latter figure is also an all-time low.