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To: Varda
Dear Varda,

Do you have a citation for your assertion that, “Pedophiles are almost always married men...”?

In 10 minutes of googling, the only hard statistic I came up with on the question of the marital status of molesters is that 44% of convicted molesters either are or have been married.

http://theweek.com/article/index/221730/pedophilia-a-guide-to-the-disorder

It does say that the vast majority of molesters have or have had sexual relationships with adults, but that's wildly different from saying that the vast majority of molesters are married men.

Other sources either don't give a precise statistic for this category (currently or formerly married men), or lump it in with other categories, or deal with the question so sloppily as to deserve to be ignored.


sitetest

93 posted on 07/21/2013 7:10:00 AM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: sitetest

Hi Sitest,

I was taught that in class some years ago. They thought they were married as a kind of smokescreen to get closer to their victims. Pedophiles were defined as the abusers of younger children, not teenagers. I’ve looked around for a proper cite but it tough finding decent information because of all the pro-homosexual propaganda. I note that a number of sites make a distinction between child molesters and pedophiles. That’s something my professors do not do. I does occur to me that the state of knowledge from that time may not apply now. (the population of married people was much higher 30 years ago). If I find that out I’ll come back to this thread and say so and take back my post.


112 posted on 07/21/2013 1:09:04 PM PDT by Varda
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To: sitetest

The Child Sexual Abuser: Perceptions of College Students and Professionals1
http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/humans_web_04/deviance/Perceptions%20of%20Abuse.pdf

College students and members of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) were compared as to their beliefs and attitudes concerning perpetrators of child sexual abuse. ......

Table I. Abuser Characteristics as Perceived by.......Professionals

Marital status (%)
Single/Never married .............12.1
Divorced................................... 9.1
Married....................................78.8

This compares with the perceptions of my professors. This paper was published in 2002. In the 2000 census the total population of single/never married men was 30%.


113 posted on 07/21/2013 2:16:21 PM PDT by Varda
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