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Originally Posted by Ustwo
But it becomes a chicken and the egg question.
Did the screwed up childhood lead them to become a sex offender, or are they from people who are inherently screwed up at a genetic level?
Plus while things like sexual abuse can be clear cut, thing like 'emotional abuse' get a bit hard to quantify.
Also based on 3/4ths of the TFP family posts I see 'dysfunctional' seems like some sort of universal feeling.
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It does seem that terms like emotional abuse and dysfunctional family are difficult to quantify as a cause but sexual abuse should be easier to define. If the stat that 40% of abusers were abused themselves them it seems like one of the best ways to predict future child abusers is whether they were abused themselves as children. It is hard to understand why victims would want to victimize others.
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Cycle of Violence
Children who are abused or neglected are more likely to become criminal offenders as adults. A National Institute of Justice study found "that childhood abuse increased the odds of future delinquency and adult criminality overall by 40 percent" (Widom, 1992). Child sexual abuse victims are also at risk of becoming ensnared in this cycle of violence. One expert estimates that forty percent of sexual abusers were sexually abused as children (Vanderbilt, 1992). In addition, victims of child sexual abuse are 27.7 times more likely to be arrested for prostitution as adults than non-victims. (Widom, 1995). Some victims become sexual abusers or prostitutes because they have a difficult time relating to others except on sexual terms.
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