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I didn't mention anything about child psychology. It doesn't take much to put some logical facts together.
a) Fact: Television has lots of allusions and direct references to sex.
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My dog watches TV, do you think that, despite the obvious intelect of a dog, he could be effected in any way by it?
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b) Fact: Kids have brains and a memory. Therefore, it doesn't take much thinking to connect seeing sex on tv with touching someone inappropriately the next day.Same thing when kids curse at passing cars or something after their parents do it. One of the ways small children learn things is through imitation.
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Some parrots can mimic spoken language, does that mean they understand what they are saying?
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c) Fact: Often, kids (like any other human being) will get curious when parents tell them something is off limits.
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Curiosity is far from a complete understanding.
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e) Fact: Sexual abuse is reported in children 300,000 to 400,000 times a year and that doesn't take into account the fact that most children won't ever report it to anyone with a position of authority because of fear, shame, or confusion.
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I'm not sure what this has to do with whether young children are capable of consciously commitiign sexual harassment. While it's a very sad statistic, it really belongs in a different discussion.
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f) Having known people with a history of sexual abuse who confessed to me that they had later on imposed their sexual desires on other unwilling victims, I didn't think it was that far-fetched an idea that this could happen.
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Key words: "later on". This suggests that they did not have the manifestations of their sexual problems until they were older (teens+).
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g) Talk to any parent, teacher or anyone who spends time around children and you'll find that children imitate people, pick up language from people, and grow up with many of their parents' ideas on things (politics, racism...that type of thing). That being true, how can you expect children not to be influenced by sex? Are kids suddenly blind to sexual acts occuring in their own homes? Do their ears magically stop working when their parents say bad things?
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If I use the word "bastard" in front of my 2 yr old daughter, she might repeat it. Does that mean she knows what it means? Of course not. You have to consider the capability of the level of development in a child in discussiung such things.
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h) We've seen on the news stories of children doing a variety of other heinous acts. Whether they should be responsible for it at the same level as adults are is questionable, but that does not mean that children are dumb, ignorant, blind and deaf. Children ARE capable of doing evil, and not just in one area. It doesn't take a degree in Child Psychology to raise children, watch children, remember what it's like to be a child, or see what's on tv these days.
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Would my dog be doing evil by biting me in the hand? There is a marked difference between misbehacing and "evil"... Unless your name is Damon, and you have a 666 tattoo on your head.
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Regardless, you can keep thinking that all children have wings on their backs and don't understand a thing in the world until 18, if it makes you happy.
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The kids in the above articles were not 18, they were 6 and 7 respectively. That's too young to commit sexual harassment.