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Originally Posted by JustJess
Don't discount the possibility of learned behavior, in the second case. In the first case, yes, it sounds like an overreaction. But in the second... I can tell you from rather personal experience that kids learn things from adults and will enact those things on other more vulnerable kids. Sometimes they know what they're doing, and other times they don't... but don't automatically assume they don't. I'd be checking that kid's home life pretty thoroughly.
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Exactly. I volunteered for a women's shelter in Oakland, CA, and we saw some very troubled children come through the doors. One little boy, about five or six, lifted his arms for me to pick him up and when I did, he vigorously rubbed his genitals against me. It turns out that his mother was a prostitute and I shudder to think what that little boy's homelife might have been.