People who identify as gay or bisexual, as well as straight people who have had a same-sex partner, are one to two times more apt to be the victims of childhood violence and are twice as likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, a study from the Harvard School of Public Health and Children's Hospital in Boston found.
More than four in 10 women who are sexual minorities and more than one in four men who are sexual minorities had been victims of violence or abuse as children, compared with about one in five straight women and men, according to a study of more than 34,000 adults.
