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Oprah Magazine: Female Teachers Who Have Sex with Students Are Misguided Souls Looking for Love...
glennsacks.com ^ | 8/27/08 | Glenn Sacks

Posted on 08/28/2008 1:33:26 PM PDT by PercivalWalks

"Sex with students is bad, but why should it be the case that for women it's a case of 'poor boundaries' and for men it's hardcore brutal predation of the most evil sort?"

Jay, a reader, recently wrote me a letter about an article in Oprah magazine on the number of female teachers caught having sex with their students, such as Debra Lafave (pictured). The article is "Why Did the Teacher Have Sex With Her Student?"

Jay writes:

My wife and I both had problems with the article, but it was interesting that we had two different problems. Here are some of the offending sentences:

"Most of these women, experts say, don't go into teaching with plans to seduce a child, the way a classic pedophile does; what leads to their downfall is emotional immaturity."

"These teachers have a poor concept of boundaries, so they don't recognize when they've crossed the line into inappropriate behavior."

"In a lot of these cases, the woman thinks she has fallen in love."

"But most of these women come from conflict-ridden families where they didn't learn healthy social skills. Many learned to get their emotional needs—for love, attention, approval—met through sexual behavior."

None of the experts condone the teachers' actions, but they do have sympathy. "I don't think she's a sexual predator," Schleicher says of Rogers. "I see her as a really hurting adult who needs help. I just hope she can get it."

My wife sees this as reasons why we should have sympathy for the female teachers, and that what they are doing isn't really bad, just misguided.

To me, the article seems to be saying that the female teachers are somehow misguided poor souls who are just looking for love, and their fantasy world leads them to find love in the wrong places sometimes. However, the first quote makes it sound as if women don't plan to seduce children, but men are "classic pedophiles" who want sex with children, and they've decided that becoming a teacher is a great way to get access. It's rather insulting to all the male teachers out there.

Of the male teachers who do have sex with students, couldn't it be possible that they think they're in love also? Sex with students is bad, but why should it be the case that for women it's a case of poor boundaries and for men it's hardcore brutal predation of the most evil sort?

Now that I think of it, it's also insulting to women. Isn't the article really saying that women just have no self control or self awareness? She can't help herself. She got caught up in the fantasy. She's just emotionally immature.

The article mentions one woman who is serving an eight year sentence. Is that comparable to the sentences men get? Is there even a way to estimate the average sentence for teachers who have sex with students?

About that woman, the magazine writes:
An impending divorce helped push 27-year-old Pamela Rogers into getting intimate with her 13-year-old student in 2004, says Joan Schleicher, a Nashville forensic psychologist who testified in court on her behalf. "She was demoralized and feeling empty inside, and he was the one to whom she could turn her attention." As the relationship progressed, Rogers (a former homecoming queen now serving an eight-year sentence) began, as many of these women do, to live in a world of "magical thinking," Schleicher says. "And she responded to that instead of the rules of society"...

"I don't think she's a sexual predator," Schleicher says of Rogers. "I see her as a really hurting adult who needs help. I just hope she can get it."

I've previously stated that I think that some of the current statutory rape laws are draconian. I think it's ludicrous that a 19-year-old boy can go to prison for having sex with a 16-year-old girl. However, a 27-year-old with a 13-year-old...well, that's different.

Glenn Sacks, www.GlennSacks.com

[Note: If you or someone you love is faced with a divorce or needs help with child custody, child support, false accusations, Parental Alienation, or other family law or criminal law matters, ask Glenn for help by clicking here.]


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: debralafave; naughtyteacherlist; oprah; pamelarogers

1 posted on 08/28/2008 1:33:27 PM PDT by PercivalWalks
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To: PercivalWalks

2 posted on 08/28/2008 1:35:11 PM PDT by A. Morgan (VOTE FOR A LIBERAL N' WE'LL BE UP TO OUR NECKS IN ILLEGALS and OUTA' GAS!)
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To: PercivalWalks

bttt


3 posted on 08/28/2008 1:38:34 PM PDT by JamesP81 (George Orwell's 1984 was a warning, not a suggestion)
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To: PercivalWalks

Still not guilty.

4 posted on 08/28/2008 1:44:06 PM PDT by TruthWillWin
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To: PercivalWalks
The greatest problem with finding a sane position in this area is that most of the "experts" are self-appoi9nted and have serious issues of their own. The whole "Satanic cult/Child Sexual Abuse/ Daycare/Stranger Abduction hysteria of the late eighties and nineties was triggered by pathological "therapists" from Psychiatrists down to social workers and "Licnesed Professional Counselors" none of whom had any basis for their crackpot opinions. Many were sexually involved with patients themselves, as it turned out.

These female perps are just as damaging as male perps despite the pubescent fantasies of many virgin boys. Any normal adult will hold them equally culpable and answerable to the law.

5 posted on 08/28/2008 1:44:48 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: PercivalWalks

Darn! I read the title of this and now I can’t get Johnny Lee’s “Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places” out of my heard. AAARRRRGGGHHHHH!


6 posted on 08/28/2008 1:45:03 PM PDT by 230FMJ (...from my cold, dead, fingers.)
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To: A. Morgan

Misguided Souls Looking for Love...

But most of these women come from conflict-ridden families

None of the experts condone the teachers’ actions, but they do have sympathy. “I don’t think she’s a sexual predator,” Schleicher says of Rogers. “I see her as a really hurting adult who needs help. I just hope she can get it.”
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It’s always someone else’s fault. Just like every other crime that sick twisted freaks commit. It is not my fault; my mommy didn’t love me enough.
Excuses, Excuses, Excuses


7 posted on 08/28/2008 1:45:36 PM PDT by onlylewis (libs want a two class system, one rich one poor)
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To: PercivalWalks

Well if she says so it must be true.And all guys driving vans in trench coats are just looking for love in all the wrong places.Thanks for the info Oprah I’m sure they’ll start letting these people out of jail any time now.


8 posted on 08/28/2008 1:47:04 PM PDT by MES401067
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So are they suggesting a “catch and release” program for female offenders like in the cartton “Assy McGee?”


9 posted on 08/28/2008 1:48:11 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: PercivalWalks
Double standard.
An Oprah specialty.
10 posted on 08/28/2008 1:58:39 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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misguided souls... NOT... they're criminals... pedophiles
11 posted on 08/28/2008 2:31:40 PM PDT by xtinct (Suicide Hotline... !! "Obama here" --> Please Hold...)
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To: 230FMJ
Darn! I read the title of this and now I can’t get Johnny Lee’s “Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places” out of my heard. AAARRRRGGGHHHHH!

This will cure you. One of the funniest SNL bits ever!

12 posted on 08/28/2008 3:03:01 PM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the sting of truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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Yup! I’m cured!

Funny Bit!


13 posted on 08/28/2008 3:30:42 PM PDT by 230FMJ (...from my cold, dead, fingers.)
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