Domestic violence tends to have a history; it is generally not like everything would be fine for decades, and then suddenly a family member would explode and begin abusing other family members.
Physical violence is generally preceded by a history of verbal and emotional violence.
The problem is that people often let the verbal and emotional violence pass, which tends to exacerbate the situation.
And I have known families where the father (as one example) was the perfect parent by all appearances, there was no domestic abuse or violence as one would assume or connect to domestic violence. Instead, every night after his wife fell asleep, he would go into his step-daughter's room and sexually molest her since she was 2 years of age. That is how she grew up, thinking it was normal and that was how all father's behaved. He told her she was daddy's special little girl, so she grew up thinking this twisted individual actually did it because he loved her and that he was a good father. She grew to enjoy it, she grew to become aroused by it. That is the nature of sexual abusers. And often, their child victims grow up thinking it is normal and feel appreciative of the attention they are getting. In short, he fucked with her brain so much she ended up killing herself. When she became a teenager, she started to question and started to not be comfortable, she became distressed when he she heard him doing the same thing to her baby sister, realising and hearing the muffled cries of pain from her sister that this possibly was not normal. So she went to her mother, who did not believe her and called her a whore, so she ran away from home and the police were called and she was found on the remote property and refused to say why she refused to return home. So they housed her in the local police station jail until her biological father could fly there and collect her.. It was about a few months later that it all came out. She later killed herself when she was older because of what he did to her through all of her childhood. And she was my best friend and it was her father and I who found her after she killed herself.
When you claim that when people feel guilt or ashamed after they have been raped they therefore cannot be truly innocent and therefore, they somehow share responsibility or are complicit, you further perpetuate the pain that my sad friend lived through and what people like Chimpkin have managed to survive through. I don't think you quite understand the pain and horror of having your rights over your own body taken from you and being forced to have sex or be touched by someone you don't want touching you. I don't think you quite recognise what kind of psychological damage that does to someone. This is worsened when rape victims orgasm, not because they are enjoying the sex, but because their body will simply react outside of their control.. so they live with the added guilt and betrayal from their own body, not to mention the stares and questions from individuals who believe like you do, who will query what they had done, as though being raped is something that was in their control.
Not all cases of rape are the same.
There is a difference between the rape of a person who was kidnapped in the middle of the day off a busy street and taken to a secluded location, and the rape that occurs when two people have known eachother for a long time, have been drinking buddies, fooled around, and then one day, things went too far.
Then there are all the other different circumstances in which rape occurs. We would need to analyze each case per se.
If a child freely steps into a stranger's car, and is then abused, the child does carry the responsibility for stepping into a stranger's car.
The child doesn't carry responsibility for the abuse per se, but does carry the responsibility for committing an action (ie. stepping into a stranger's car) that can reasonably be considered as leading to the abuse, given the circumstances.
So when I read comments like this from you, it scares me. Because you actually believe that not all rape is rape. You actually believe that a child trusting a stranger or approaching a stranger calling to them is somehow responsible for their own rape or abuse, thereby lessening the responsibility of the perpetrator to not commit such a crime.. As you though you are saying 'well you got in the car, so it's partly your own fault and own doing'.
You cannot seem to quite grasp that that child getting in that car does not lessen the child's innocence, just as a woman who is raped by her spouse/partner or friend, even when they are sleeping together, does not lessen her innocence. No does mean no, no matter what the situation is.
There is a link, provided by adoucette, which makes it very simple. It's central message is simply "Don't rape people". In other words, it is not for the victim to not be raped. It is for the rapist to not rape,
no matter what. It means that a rapist is not less guilty because the child got into their car or because the victim is his/her spouse.
One cannot prevent being raped because no one can know what exactly can set off a rapist. It can be anything or nothing at all. Rape is not about attraction but about power and the desire to deny someone power over their own bodies. When you figure out what combination exists that will prevent a woman from being raped no matter what, then let us know. Because at the moment, no one knows. Short of never ever being in the company of another person from birth to death, one can never know. I can wear a tent when I have to go in public, just in case, carry a gun or knife on me at all times, just in case, never speak to strangers or any men aside from my spouse or partner, just in case and one night I could get into bed and my spouse can over-power me and rape me.