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 123STA T . 3 5 5 0CON C UR R E NT RESO L UT I ONS — A P R. 30 , 200 9SEC.607 .SE N SE OFTH E CON GR ESS REG A R DI NGTHEI MP ORTANCE OF CHI L DS U PPORT ENFORCEMENT. Itis t he se n se of the C on gr ess th a t —(1) a d ditiona l legislati v ea c tion is needed to ens u re that S tates have the necessar y resources to collect all child su p port that is o w edtofa m ilies and to allow them to pass 1 0 0 percent of support on to families without financial penalty and ( 2 ) when 100 percent of child support payments are passed to the child , rather than administrative e x penses, program integrity is improved and child support participation increases .A greed to April 2 9, 2009 NATIO NA LSEXU AL ASSAULT A W A R ENESS AN DP RE V ENTION M ONT H— SUPPORT W hereas on average, a person is sexually assaulted in the U nited States every two - and-a-half minutes; Whereas the D epartment of J ustice reports that 191, 67 0 people in the United States were sexually assaulted in 200 5 Whereas 1 in 6 women and 1 in 3 3 men have b een victims of rape or attempted rape; Whereas the Department of Defense received 2,6 8 8 reports of sexual assault involving members of the Armed F orces in fiscal year 2007; Whereas children and young adults are most at ris k of sexual assault, as 4 4 percent of sexual assault victims are under the age of 18, and 80 percent are under the age of 30; Whereas sexual assault affects women, men, and children of all racial, social, religious, age, ethnic, and economic groups in the United States; Whereas only 41 percent of sexual assault victims pursue prosecu- tion by reporting their attack to law enforcement agencies; Whereas two-thirds of sexual crimes are committed by persons who are not strangers to the victims; Whereas sexual assault survivors suffer emotional scars long after the physical scars have healed; Whereas prevention education programs carried out by rape crisis and women ’ s health centers have the potential to reduce the prevalence of sexual assault in their communities; Whereas because of recent advances in D N A technology, law enforcement agencies have the potential to identify the rapists in tens of thousands of unsolved rape cases; Whereas aggressive prosecution can incarcerate rapists and there- fore prevent them from committing further crimes; Whereas free, confidential help is available to all survivors of sexual assault through the National Sexual Assault H otline, more than 1,000 rape crisis centers across the United States, and other organi z ations that provide services to assist survivors of sexual assault; and Apr.30,2 00 9[H . Con . Res . 1 0 4]