>The 90s are now the bad old days?

In terms of sex abuse in the Catholic Church, the peak was in the 1980s, but the rate didn't plummet to near-zero until after the 2002 Dallas Charter reforms. Everything before that more-or-less was the "bad old days" of sex abuse in the Church, and this report serves to confirm that.

Now the struggle is in trying to bring such reforms to public schools, youth athletics, scouting programs, etc. so that those institutions can experience the same sudden dramatic drop in abuse rates. But teachers unions spend a fortune lobbying to prevent that.