Why child sex abusers say they abuse children - Study

 

A useful study for identifying some of the reasons men sexually abuse children. But, I believe, it misses the main reason, which I consider to be anger at God taken out on the essence of innocence - prepubescent children.

World’s largest study of child sexual abuse perpetrators reveals why they abuse

Warning: this article contains distressing quotes from perpetrators of child sexual abuse.

Researchers have long tried to answer the question: why do some men sexually abuse children?

We recently set out to find an answer.

In the largest study of child sexual abuse perpetrators’ accounts ever conducted, we systematically analysed nearly 700 adult male perpetrators’ accounts from 39 studies to document the ways these men account for their actions.

Some startling revelations

The men were aged 18 years and over and came from across the globe – from Norway to New Zealand, Malawi to Brazil. We were interested in documenting what perpetrators’ accounts can tell us about preventing child sexual abuse.

The men’s accounts varied dramatically. Some blamed drugs and alcohol, or their own experiences of childhood maltreatment. Others claimed they were seeking exciting or risky new sexual experiences.

Others said they were “in love” with or trying to “educate” the child.

The most common way perpetrators explained their behaviour was to cast their victims as consenting participants in the sexual activity.

In especially egregious cases, perpetrators positioned themselves as the hapless casualties of their (mostly female) victims’ devious sexual scheming, describing their young victims as “flirtatious”.

One stated:

she was a little vixen in the whole thing […] I was truly lured in.

Or course, children cannot consent to sexual activity with adults. Importantly, even if the victim had been an adult, the evidence of a child’s “consent” offered by perpetrators was extremely tenuous, usually amounting only to the absence of forceful resistance.

Abuse as revenge

Revenge was another common reason offered to explain the offending. Overwhelmingly, perpetrators nominated their adult women partners as the target of their retaliatory behaviour.

In short, they abused a child to get back at the child’s mother.

Perpetrators sought revenge because their adult women partners failed to adhere to traditional femininity and to fulfil the role of romantic/sexual partner and/or mother/homemaker to the perpetrator’s standard and preferences.

As one perpetrator stated:

There was a few times that I molested [my stepdaughter] out of being mad […] at [my wife for] […] not cleaning the house. Letting the dog shit on the floor and nobody cleaning it up.

In perpetrators’ accounts, adult women partners were expected to provide sexual interaction exclusively to the perpetrator when, where and how the perpetrator desired.

In some instances, perpetrators claimed they were driven to perpetrate child sexual abuse due to their desire for specific sexual acts or forms of bodily presentation that their adult partners declined to enact.

Anger and so-called rights

Perpetrators sometimes framed the child victim as deserving the abuse, claiming their offending resulted from anger toward the child.

For instance, perpetrators felt angry because their victims failed to meet “feminine” norms or did not display sufficient submissiveness. For example, one perpetrator said:

She wasn’t being a nice little girl, that a perfect little girl is supposed to be.

Crucially, men’s reasons for feeling anger toward the child victim(s) echo the same tropes that underpin their anger toward adult women.

Perpetrators commonly invoked their “right” to sexual activity to explain their offending and bemoaned a lack of sexual access to adult partners.

Moreover, perpetrators framed children as sexually compliant and constantly sexually available, again highlighting their sense of entitlement to sex and lack of concern that children can’t consent.

Compared with prior studies, we found a more frequent and pronounced emphasis on patriarchal thinking in perpetrators’ accounts.

Research often suggests men sexually abuse children due to “marital conflict” or “domestic discord”.

However, this interpretation appears sanitised against perpetrators’ own accounts, which often vigorously emphasise their rage and retaliatory reasoning alongside an unwavering sense of male sexual entitlement.

Perpetrators’ focus on child victims’ supposed “consent” is instructive here. In sexual encounters with adult women, men position partners as “gatekeepers” – as responsible for resisting their advances if they do not consent.

While this relates to men’s beliefs about adult women, men in our study commonly viewed women and children as a combined category of subordinates.

Indeed, many of the perpetrators in our study collapsed the distinction between girls and adult women, stating for example:

I felt a need for […] sexual satisfaction and that required a female.

Better education and policy is crucial

Our findings therefore highlight the need for policymakers and practitioners to strengthen efforts to combat misogyny, male sexual entitlement and patriarchal privilege.

Challenging rape myths (false beliefs about sexual violence, those who perpetrate it, and those affected by it) and rape myth acceptance (the acceptance of these false beliefs) remains critical.

While such measures are typically targeted at preventing sexual violence against adult women, our analysis suggests they may also help prevent child sexual abuse.

If this article has raised issues for you, or if you’re concerned about someone you know, call Lifeline on 13 11 14 - Australia

The National Sexual Assault, Family and Domestic Violence Counselling Line – 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732) – is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week for any Australian who has experienced, or is at risk of, family and domestic violence and/or sexual assault.

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Approaching Sodom > Dutch study on Abortions produced alarming results

 

Many women in abortion care did not use contraceptives;

Better information needed

Many women who got an abortion did not use contraceptives to prevent an unwanted pregnancy, Rutgers found in new research. The expertise center for sexuality is concerned about a lack of knowledge and misinformation about fertility, contraceptives, and the chance of getting pregnant.

Rutgers surveyed women aged 16 and older who had requested an abortion. 41 percent had not used contraception. “It is striking that this group is so large,” Rutgers researcher Renee Finkenflügel told NOS. “We know for sure that the women who participated in the study became pregnant unintentionally. There seems to be a lack of information and knowledge about the means to prevent this.”

When asked why they didn’t use contraception, the most frequent answer was that the women considered the chance of pregnancy to be small (44%). Some thought they couldn’t get pregnant at all, while others had not considered the possibility. Women also said that they did not want to use hormones (42%), or that they stopped using contraception because they struggled with the side effects (30%).

It's alarming enough that 41% of abortion seekers didn't use effective birth control but, in the end, used abortion as their method of birth control. Such women need to have a very heartfelt talk with the Lord after refusing the phenomenol gift He gave them. 

But I have to question that 41% number, because it means 59% used birth control and still got pregnant. What kind of birth control is so inneffective? It would seem that the percentage of abortion seekers not using effective birth control is much, much higher than 41%.

Others had tried to prevent pregnancy by using a condom or keeping track of the days on which they were fertile by measuring their temperature or looking at their vaginal discharge, often also using an app or calendar to track their cycle. Some women took a morning-after pill after unprotected sex, but this method does not always work.

“I am not surprised that women choose natural methods of contraception,” Finkenflügel said, referring to an earlier study showing that natural methods were on the rise, partly thanks to influencers. The researcher called it important that people choose a method that suits them, and that they do so knowing the efficacy of the method along with possible side effects. It is also important to re-evaluate the chosen method after a while and consider an alternative if it isn’t working for you.

Combating disinformation is also essential. Spreading the right knowledge about the subject, also among men, helps with that. “We at Rutgers do that, but it is also important that the government plays a role in this,” Finkenflügel said. 

Is it information that's needed, or is it the fear of God that's needed?

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Child Sexual Abuse Study - Very Revealing

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OSU study calls for better screening of sexual abuse in children

The study of more than 6,500 people finds that the longer the abuse, the worse the impact

BY: GARRETT ANDREWS - 

AUGUST 25, 2022 5:45 AM

 

An Oregon State University study found that the longer a child suffered from sexual abuse, the bigger an impact it had on them as an adult. (Getty Images)

A recent study by researchers at Oregon State University found that chronic childhood sexual abuse is more likely to lead to negative outcomes in adults than single instances of trauma.

The findings highlight the importance of screening for chronic trauma, rather than relying on one-time checklist-style assessments, which, for instance, ask how severe was the abuse or who was the abuser to the victim.

Popular assessment tools like the Adverse Childhood Experiences, which consists of a series of questions, could be greatly improved with a few basic follow-up questions about the duration of abuse, according to the study’s lead author, Ashley Schuyler.

“(Adverse Childhood Experiences) is useful, but maybe not the most helpful in identifying the individuals who need the most help.” Schuyler told the Capital Chronicle.

Consequences of child sex abuse

Along with physical and mental health challenges, adults who experienced chronic abuse as children suffer from higher rates of drug abuse, poverty and incarceration. Longer durations of childhood trauma are also linked to higher rates of emotional and physical health problems, sexual dissatisfaction and dysfunction, relationship and marital problems, fair or poor overall health, lower educational attainment, income below the poverty level and a history of incarceration.

This is a key issue in Oregon, which surveys have consistently shown ranks high nationwide in the number of children and adults struggling with mental health issues and low in providing access to treatment. The rate of Oregonians with mental illness – 23.8% – was around 4% higher than the national average of 19.9%, according to a 2021 study by the Kaiser Family Foundation. And the share of Oregonians who reported experiencing anxiety or depression and did not receive counseling or therapy was around 8% higher than the national average, or 34.5% compared to 26.9%.

The OSU study did not break down by state the number of adults who suffered childhood trauma, but nationwide the number is estimated to be around 16 million. Of those, around 10 million adults suffered for “intermediate” or “extreme” durations.

In the study, Schuyler and co-author Joseph Catania examined data from the 1995-1996 National Sexual Health Survey conducted by the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of California-San Francisco. It’s one of few surveys large enough to be considered representative of the U.S. population,  Schuyler said.

A few problems here. These data are 26-27 years old, so they were collected before the great drug epidemic across North America, and the legalization of marijuana in some states. Both of these are known to affect mental illnesses like schizophrenia and paranoia. 

Also, there are no studies indicating the number of adults who refuse to acknowledge having been sexually abused as a child until they are in their 30's, 40's or 50's. That number is undoubtedly significant as these people keep showing up on my blog all the time. So, the percentage of those reporting having been abused as a child comes well short of reality.

Of the 6,537 survey respondents, 8.1% reported experiencing chronic sexual trauma prior to turning 18. Fourteen percent of women surveyed reported experiencing chronic childhood sexual abuse, as did 20 to 25% of gay and bisexual men. Those rates have been confirmed in subsequent studies, Schuyler said.

The longer the abuse, the worse the trauma

The OSU paper found that the longer childhood trauma took place, the greater the likelihood of adult survivors seeking help, whether in a health care setting, or informally, by confiding to friends and family, for example. Only 27% of respondents who suffered a single instance of trauma reported seeking help, compared to 42% of people with “intermediate-duration” trauma, i.e., one to three years, and 59% of people with extreme-duration trauma of at least four years.

Fear is a major contributor to the trauma of child sexual abuse. The longer the abuse continues, the more fear is associated with it, and the greater the strain on mental health.

Public health officials need to work on de-stigmatizing sex-related trauma, Schuyler said. ACEs and other checklist-style screening tools are useful as a jumping-off point, but there needs to be more specialized follow-up care, she said.

“On the health care side, one step at reducing that stigma is better preparing and equipping providers to talk about these issues with patients, to ask the right questions and not wait for the patient to bring it up,” she said. “It can help normalize the idea that these are issues we should talk about; that we have resources available to support you.”

Every sexually abused child/adult should be able to access mental health care.

Understanding Child Sex Abuse and Its Effects - 50% of Prisoners Abused as Kids

Half of Canada's prisoners were abused as children, McMaster study suggests

Samantha Craggs · CBC News 

A new McMaster University study suggests half of Canada's 41,000 inmates were abused as children, including sexual abuse and neglect. (Frank Gunn/Canadian Press)

About half of Canada's inmates were abused as children, suggests a new study out of McMaster University.

Medical student Claire Bodkin led a team that studied data from 30 years of research into Canadian inmates. Their work was published in the March issue of the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH).  

The researchers found 65 per cent of female inmates experienced abuse in general, and half of them were sexually abused.

Bodkin said only one study in the data evaluated reported the prevalence of abuse among men. The researchers found abuse rates involving male inmates were at 35.5 per cent, with 21.9 per cent of them having experienced sexual abuse.

If we had more resources at the preventative level, before people

got in conflict with the law, that would be really amazing.

- Ruth Greenspan, John Howard Society

The team did a statistical analysis of the results to reach the conclusion that half of inmates had been abused, Bodkin said.

"That's an alarmingly high number."

These are the other researchers involved in the work, which included going over 34 studies from territorial, federal and provincial prisons and jails:

Fiona Kouyoumdjian and Lucie Pivnick, both McMaster.

Susan Bondy of the University of Toronto.

Carolyn Ziegler of Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital.

Ruth Elwood Martin of the University of British Columbia.

Claire Bodkin, lead author of the article in the March issue of the American Journal of Public Health, says one purpose of the research is to help determine: 'How do we prevent childhood abuse from happening in the first place?' (Sara Alavian)

Bodkin said understanding people who have been incarcerated — including reoffenders — will go a long way in helping prevent crime. 

Prisons need to take trauma into account in how they deal with inmates, Bodkin said.

"Regardless of where you stand politically, I think everyone can agree that prison is not a healthy place for people, and that it's a symptom of multiple other things that have gone wrong."

So "how do we need to think about the impact of childhood trauma? How do we prevent childhood abuse from happening in the first place?"

It would seem intuitive that understanding common backgrounds of prisoners would lead to an understanding of methods to reduce the number of prisoners by addressing those common experiences and their psychological consequences that contribute to their criminal behaviour. If this study is a beginning in that direction, great! But it's a crying shame that we are nearly 2 decades into the 21st century, and we are not really even started on this.

The findings aren't surprising to Ruth Greenspan, executive director of the John Howard Society of Hamilton, Burlington and area in Ontario.

"Many resort to their own abuse of themselves," she said. "There's a lot of addiction, self-mutilation, self-harm, and suicide, which again, are all indications of having suffered a lot of trauma. PTSD is something you see when you work with this population."

There have been some great programs over the years to address trauma among people who commit crimes, she said. But the funding comes and goes.

On the whole, there aren't enough free resources for individuals — before, during or after prison, said Greenspan.

Prevention 'would just save so much money'

"If we had more resources at the preventative level, before people got in conflict with the law, that would be really amazing," she said.

"If we prevented it, we would just save so much money in the criminal justice system. And I don't think we're there yet."

For her part, Bodkin has done some clinical training with men during and after prison. Some have "really expansive trauma histories," including severe abuse as children, she said.

"We suspected it was high, but there wasn't good research out there that led to a national perspective in Canada."

As for what constitutes abuse, Bodkin and her team used a World Health Organization definition, which means attendance at a residential school wasn't considered, although that research would be useful too, Bodkin said.

At any given time, 41,000 people are incarcerated in Canada, and a disproportionate number are Indigenous.

And, I believe there is a disproportionate amount of child abuse and child sex abuse among Indigenous peoples; much of the fault lies at the doorsteps of residential schools. Most remote communities are a couple generations removed from residential school attendance, but the effects are inter-generational, and after decades of awareness of the abuse suffered at residential schools, there is no program running in indigenous communities to address the psychological effects that still plague them. This is criminally irresponsible, IMHO.

Child Abuse Ups Suicide Risk in Later Life - Major Study

A significant analysis of 68 studies on global child abuse reveals such data as:

One-in-three children globally experience abuse

The threat of suicide is 3x higher for adults sexually abused as children

The threat of suicide is 5x higher for survivors of multiple abuse as children

The threat of suicide increases with age for adults abused as children

Psychological counselling reduces that threat

The economic burden of child abuse on society is staggering 

It's not clear from this report whether the term 'multiple abuse' refers to being abused on more than one occasion, or more than one type of abuse, like physical, sexual and emotional abuse. It may be that the numbers hold for both of those possibilities. While chronic abuse of the same type is quite obviously worse than a single event, I have contended for some years that multiple types of abuse result in exponentially worse mental effects for a survivor. 

I also contend that every child who suffers abuse of any kind needs counselling until the mental effects of that abuse are neutralized, no matter how long it takes.

Press Trust of India |  London 

Children who experience physical, sexual, and emotional abuse are significantly more likely to attempt suicide in later life, a study has found.

The analysis of 68 studies by psychologists at the University of Manchester and University of South Wales in the UK showed that suicide attempts were three times more likely for people who experienced sexual abuse as a child.

People who experienced physical abuse as a child were two and a half times more likely to attempt suicide.

The research, published in the journal Psychological Medicine, also showed that children who experienced multiple abuse are as much as five times higher to attempt suicide.

As the people who experienced abuse as children get older, the risk of suicide attempts increases, researchers said.

People not in contact with mental health clinicians were found to be at the highest level of risk.

The sixty-eight studies were carried out across the world, producing about 262 thousand adults aged 18 years or older, who were exposed to childhood abuse and neglect.

"Around one adult in every three has experienced abuse as a child," said Maria Panagioti, from The University of Manchester, who led the research team.

"This study conclusively gives us solid evidence that childhood abuse and neglect is associated with increased likelihood that they will be at risk of suicide as adults," said Panagioti.

"And that has important implications on healthcare. Other studies have shown that in the US, for example, the economic burden of childhood maltreatment is estimated to be around USD 124 billion," she said.

"These findings not only provided a clear picture of the connection between abuse or neglect in childhood and suicide attempts later on in life, but also recognised that efficient interventions should take a broader community-based approach," said Ioannis Angelakis from the University of South Wales.

German Catholic Church Abused Thousands of Children, Rape in Every 6th Case

FILE PIC: A clergyman. © Jaap Arriens / Global Look Press

An explosive report on Catholic child sex abuse in Germany has been leaked by two leading German news outlets, revealing that as many as 3,677 people were abused by clergy between 1946 and 2014.

Spiegel Online and Die Zeit said the report they obtained concluded that the majority of victims were boys aged 13 or younger, 969 of whom were altar boys. The study, commissioned by the German Bishops Conference, was conducted by three universities and was not due to be revealed until the September 25 conference.

According to the leaked research, every sixth case was a rape and at least 1,670 clergy were involved. Many of the priests caught abusing had recently been transferred to other parishes and a mere one-third of accused members of the clergy were investigated by the Catholic Church.

According to research by experts from the Universities of Giessen, Heidelberg, and Mannheim, the actual number of victims was likely much higher, as researchers were not allowed access to the original church files. Instead, they had to give questionnaires to the dioceses, which then provided information.

They didn't have access to the original files for a study commissioned by the German Conference of Bishops? Does that seem strange to anyone but me?

Der Spiegel, quoting from an executive summary that is included in the leaked official report, wrote that there was evidence that some files and archives had been “destroyed or manipulated.” It also said that those accused of child abuse, primarily priests, were relocated to unsuspecting new congregations which had not been informed about the previous allegations made against them.

The explosive report is hardly the first of its kind to shine a light on the rampant sexual abuse occurring in the Catholic Church. Last month, an investigation in the US found that more than 1,000 children had been abused by about 300 priests in Pennsylvania alone.

Australia concluded a wide ranging royal commission into child sex abuse within the Catholic Church in 2017. It established that there were 4,756 reported claims to Catholic Church authorities over child sexual abuse concerning 1,880 suspected abusers from 1980 to 2015.

Earlier this week, the Vatican said it is preparing the "necessary clarifications" about accusations that top Vatican officials - including Pope Francis himself - covered up the sexual misconduct of the now-disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick from the US.

On Wednesday, the Vatican announced that it will summon the presidents of every national bishops conference across the globe for a summit on preventing clergy sex abuse and protecting children. A Vatican spokesperson said the summit will run from February 21-24.

About a hundred years too late! Or maybe a thousand!

The German Bishops Conference said in a written response that it regretted the leaking of the report, but that the study confirms "the extent of the sexual abuse" that took place.

“It is oppressive and shameful for us,” Bishop Stephan Ackermann of Trier said in a statement Wednesday. “Four years ago we commissioned the study and we bishops in particular are facing up to the results.”

The real truth will be made known on the day when we stand before God - then you will really face the results. Your shame will be unbearable, as it should be now.

NZ Children's Minister Wants Online Pornography to be Regulated But Study Will Miss the Point

By: Isaac Davison
Social Issues Reporter, NZ Herald

New Zealand could follow the United Kingdom in bringing in age restrictions for online pornography and blocking websites which refuse to comply.

Department of Internal Affairs Minister Tracey Martin, who also holds the children's portfolio, says young people are being "bombarded" by internet pornography and she wants censorship laws to be strengthened.

"This is a really, really big issue to New Zealand and we are going to have a serious conversation about it," she told the Herald.

"And I hope to make sure we have this conversation in this term of Government."

Martin supports the approach of the United Kingdom, which has ambitious - and controversial - plans to introduce mandatory age verification for pornographic websites later this year.

She made the comments after the Chief Censor began a major piece of research on New Zealand teenagers' online pornography habits. Expected to be completed in December, the research will be used to inform Government policy, including possible regulation.

"We're pretty excited about it," Chief Censor David Shanks said. "We think it's going to give us some potentially world-leading data on the New Zealand situation and teens and pornography.

"With this research our aim is to get solid evidence about the experiences and perspectives of young people on the table so there can be an informed debate."

Don't forget the pre-teens. Adolescence is the most vulnerable time for boys to be viewing pornography. Adolescence is when the brain re-wires and pornography results in many of the wires getting crossed. I believe it is responsible for the culture of rape in high schools and colleges.

The Office of Film and Literature Classification began the survey last week of 2300 people aged between 14 and 17.

"In our view policy in this area does need some consideration, in terms of how do you regulate use and access to porn in the digital environment," Shanks said.

"The question there is . . . when the average age to get a smartphone is 10 and a half to 11 years old, what sort of tools and restrictions can we really place on access to material that's widely available on the internet?"

Martin said the Chief Censor's research was "vital work", though she is already intent on changes.

"I have already had conversations with the Chief Censor with regard to a particular drive of mine to make sure we as a nation do something about what is the bombardment of pornography and the easy access to pornography that our young people are experiencing.

"Considering our censorship laws were pre-internet, this is an area that we have left for a long time without addressing and I think we need to address it."

New Zealand censorship laws already ban some types of pornography, such as material which includes violence, rape or degrading acts. But the Office of Film and Literature Classification's work is mostly limited to DVDs released in New Zealand, and online pornography is effectively unregulated. The Department of Internal Affairs' work in this area is primarily focused on online content featuring child sexual abuse.

The UK Government has a policy which allows internet service providers to block porn websites unless people older than 18 "opt in" to use them. It plans to go further this year by bringing in age verification requirements for online pornography, which will include powers to block websites which don't offer "age gates".

Martin said she was not interested in wholesale bans on online content because they did not work. But she supported the UK Government's approach, saying she was interested in any policy which helped to protect young people.

"I would really like to watch how they implement it and see what are the challenges for them," she said.

Justice Minister Andrew Little, who would have joint responsibility for any regulation changes, said he was aware of concerns that had been raised about the effects of pornography on children. He was open to ideas about regulatory approaches which New Zealand could take to address these problems, he said.

Shanks said new regulations may not be required at all, or they could be part of a range of solutions including education for young people.

He said any causational link between viewing pornography and sexual assault was "very difficult to prove", but there was enough evidence to urge caution about the impact of widely accessible pornography.

His office was keeping a close eye on the UK model, which has stirred debate about internet freedoms and whether the internet can be effectively regulated.

"It's certainly not an easy thing to implement socially or technologically," Shanks said. "It's just worth paying attention to, to see if gets traction or not."

The survey of internet pornography use will ask if teenagers look at online pornography, how often, what sort of content, why they are looking at it, and how they are viewing it. It requires parental consent, but the participants will fill out the survey anonymously and privately.

You are basically looking at the picture with one eye closed and the other half open if you leave out adolescents. Why the restriction to 14-17 year olds? You will completely miss the point!

PORNOGRAPHY AND THE LAW

• Censorship laws ban "objectionable" publications, which include exploitation of children, violent sex or rape, necrophilia, use of urine or excrement for degrading sexual conduct, bestiality, or torture.

• The Chief Censor reviews all DVDs released or imported into NZ, but online content is effectively unregulated.

• The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) monitors online use and primarily focuses on material related to child sexual abuse.

• A filtering system run by DIA blocks websites which contain child sexual abuse content.

UK Launches “Ethnic Origins Study” of Muslim Rape Gangs

Home Secretary realizes there's an elephant in the room!

This is very exciting! Will the Tories actually acknowledge the elephant in the room? What a courageous thing to do! Although I am not convinced they will arrive at the truth. They already know that most of the rapists are Pakistani, perhaps Javid just wants to prove it. But their penchant for raping young, white, British girls may have less to do with their ethnicity than with their religion. 

Islam teaches, from Mohammed's own words, that Muslim men can do what they like with a non-Muslim girl, of any age, who is in their right hand - that is, under their control. Certain Muslim strains take that literally as permission to rape little, British girls - all they have to do is convince them to get in their car, or go to a hotel room, or just about anywhere with them.

Whether Javid comes to this conclusion has yet to be seen. What he will do with that information, or even just the ethnic origins of the rapists, is anybody's guess. I doubt that he will be able to do much with it though as Muslims and liberals will soon start screaming blue murder.

BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS

The Home Secretary has ordered research into the ethnicity of grooming gangs and is working to improve the “targeting” of child sex abuse networks and “prevention activity”.

Of course, there are those who will claim that Home Secretary Sajid Javid is implementing an “Islamophobic” policy.

It cannot be emphasized enough that the nature of the defense against the global jihad has everything to do with ideology. This ideology is a supremacist one that relegates women to an inferior status and sanctions the sexual abuse of Infidel women. It also sanctions violence against gays, infidels and those who criticize Muhammad and Islam.

There is a dangerous trend in the West today toward open borders, aided and abetted by the concealing of crime statistics. Citizens have a right to know information that could help them protect themselves more effectively and hold their elected representatives accountable more effectively.

Javid stated:

"We are looking at what this data set can tell us about the characteristics of offenders, victims and the wider context of abuse; all of which have critical bearing on the effective targeting of prevention activity.”

It is already widely known that Muslim rape gangs have been abusing mostly “white girls,” and often refer to their victims as “white trash.” This prompted the former Director of Public Prosecutions, Lord Macdonald, to refer to the treatment of the girls by the Muslim rape gangs as “profoundly racist.” In one case, the Muslim rapists were handed lower sentences because their victims “were white.”

“UK Govt Finally Launches Ethnic Origins Study of Child Rape Gangs After Decades of Abuse,” by Liam Deacon, Breitbart, July 26, 2018:

The Home Secretary has ordered research into the ethnicity of grooming gangs and is working to improve the “targeting” of child sex abuse networks and “prevention activity”.

Sajid Javid said that establishing the “particular characteristics” of the perpetrators was “critical to our understanding” of the crimes in towns including Rotherham, Telford, and Newcastle.

At the end of last year, researchers at the counter-extremism group the Quilliam Foundation published findings that 84 percent of those convicted since 2005 for the specific crime of gang grooming and rape were South Asian.

And on Wednesday, it was reported that Rotherham MP Sarah Champion had been targeted by Muslim and hard-left groups for speaking about the “problem” of white girls being sexually abused by Muslim men in her constituency and across the nation.

When she made the comment last year, she was forced from a front bench job in the Labour Party. Backing her, Mr Javid tweeted Wednesday: “MP’s should be able do their job without being threatened or intimidated in any way. Sarah Champion has my full support.”

Writing to Ms Champion Wednesday, he expanded: “My officials have been working with investigating officers in relevant cases, and with the National Crime Agency, to establish the particular characteristics and contexts associated with this type of offending.

“We are looking at what this data set can tell us about the characteristics of offenders, victims and the wider context of abuse; all of which have critical bearing on the effective targeting of prevention activity.”

Mr Javid added: “This is a complex topic and the work of the Centre of Expertise is critical to our understanding of the model of offending we have seen in Rotherham, Telford, Newcastle and elsewhere…..

US Cost of Child Sexual Abuse Over $9 Billion in 2015; Or was it Over $150 Billion?

I have been waiting a long time for a study like this. It seems comprehensive enough but, unfortunately, the premise is based on completely inadequate numbers. Nevertheless, it is a place to start.

Letourneau EJ, et al. Child Abuse Negl. 2018

The total lifetime economic burden of child sexual abuse in the United States was estimated at about $9.3 billion in 2015, according to findings published in Child Abuse and Neglect.

"Most people appreciate the immense mental and physical health toll of child sexual abuse on victims, but that knowledge has been insufficient to prompt serious investment in primary prevention efforts," Elizabeth J. Letourneau, PhD, professor in the department of mental health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and director of the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse, said in a press release.

I am not convinced that 'most people appreciate the immense mental and physical health toll of child sexual abuse on victims'. There is actually very little written about the extent of the damage it does to kids and subsequent adult survivors. Most of it comes from survivors themselves and few of those are widely read. The damage is exponentially greater than any done to those who 'come out' under the #MeToo banner.

In their study, Letourneau and colleagues examined data from the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System to gather a full census of all child sexual abuse cases reported to child protective agencies across the U.S. and provide an estimate of the economic impact of child sexual abuse, according to the press release.

Unfortunately, this data system estimates the number of abused children to be in the vicinity of just under 10 per 1000. That's less than 1%. That is absurd! Darkness to Light  is the most conservative resource in the country and it estimates child sex abuse rates at 10% of all children. D2L told me specifically that they do not include peer-on-peer child sex abuse in their statistics or the numbers would go way up. Those resources who do include peer-on-peer abuse report numbers like 1 in 3 girls and 1 in 5 boys. Those resources include CDC, and Journalist Resource where they report: U.S. rates were 7.5% for males and 25.3% for females.

The researchers measured health care costs, productivity losses, child welfare costs, violence/crime costs, special education costs and suicide death costs, and separately estimated quality-adjusted life-year losses. Using the best available secondary data, they also developed cost per case estimates for the 2015 annual cost and for each category. All costs were measured in U.S. dollars and adjusted to the reference year.

Letourneau and colleagues found the lifetime economic burden of child sexual abuse was roughly $9.3 billion in 2015 ($8.6 billion for female victims and $758 million for male victims), based on 20 new cases of fatal and 40,387 new substantiated cases of nonfatal abuse that occurred that year. 

The lifetime cost related to fatal child sexual abuse was $1,128,334 and $1,482,933 per female and male victim, according to the researchers. The cost for female victims includes $22,730 in medical costs and $1,105,604 in productivity losses, whereas the cost for males includes $21,751 in medical costs and $1,461,182 in productivity losses. These costs increased by about $40,000 per victim when including quality-adjusted life-years.

The average lifetime cost for victims of nonfatal abuse was $282,734 per female victim; however, for male victims of nonfatal child sexual abuse, there was not enough information on productivity losses, therefore it yielded a lower average estimated lifetime cost — $74,691 per male victim. According to the results, childhood health care costs accounted for $580 million, adulthood medical costs for $399 million, productivity losses for $6.8 billion, child welfare costs for $337 million, violence/crime costs for $98 million, special education costs for $152 million and suicide death costs for $980 million of the total costs associated with nonfatal cases.

Estimates of the number of children having been sexually abused differ for reasons stated above as well as there being a variety of definitions as to what defines sexual abuse. Name calling, crude remarks are rude in my books but not sexual abuse. Pornography of any description is sexual abuse to a child. 

I use somewhat conservative numbers of 1 in 4 to 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 6 to 1 in 10 boys. For both sexes then approximately 1 in 6 would be a conservative estimate. That's about 17% of all kids and is 17 times greater than Latourneau's study. That means a conservative value of $153 Billion is spent or not realized on child sex abuse and its effects. 

A conservative value of $153 Billion is spent or not realized

on child sex abuse and its effects 

“The U.S. now focuses broadly on proven and promising child maltreatment prevention policies and practices targeted primarily toward new and expecting parents and young children. The U.S. has not, however, focused broadly on the prevention of [child sexual abuse],” Letourneau and colleagues wrote.

“Despite the obvious appeal of preventing sexual harm from occurring in the first place, many people view [child sexual abuse] as uniquely unpreventable and, therefore, most efforts involve after-the-fact criminal justice interventions that target known offenders,” they continued. “It is hoped that a credible, comprehensive and current estimate of the national financial burden of [child sexual abuse] will bring attention to the high but unmet potential of [child sexual abuse] prevention programming and serve as a benchmark against which to evaluate cost effectiveness of subsequent prevention efforts.” – by Savannah Demko

Disclosures: Healio Psychiatry was unable to confirm any relevant financial disclosures at the time of publication.

Study Shows Link Between Severity of Child Sexual Abuse and Mental Health

Just in case you had any doubts, there is a direct link between child sex abuse and mental health. Mental health is a part of modern society that is deteriorating at an extraordinary pace. Much of it is because of drugs, including marijuana, but, as this study shows, much of it is due to child sex abuse.

It's time all governments addressed the nightmarish problem of child sex abuse in a much more aggressive way.

In an investigation published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics the harm of sexual abuse in Swiss adolescents is analyzed. 

Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) comprises activities with actual physical contact (e.g. rape, unwanted touching) and without physical contact (e.g. exhibitionism, exposure to pornography, verbal sexual harassment, distribution of intimate pictures against one's will).

Research has shown that CSA is a persistent public health problem across all countries and cultures. However, there is almost no research on the differential effects of the type of CSA on outcome. To bridge these research gaps, the aim of the study was to assess health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and mental health across contact and non-contact types of CSA in a population sample of adolescents.

Authors assessed a nationally representative sample of 6,751 Swiss 9th grade students (mean age 15.5 years) attending public schools. Results found that roughly 40% of females and 17% of males reported experience of some type of CSA in their lifetimes, with 'non-contact CSA only' considerably more prevalent in both genders (24.7 and 12.1%, respectively) than 'contact CSA only' (5.1 and 2.3%) and both types of CSA (10.5 and 2.8%).

The risk of females experiencing all categories of CSA was considerably higher than for males (OR = 2.37, 2.28, and 4.12, respectively). In addition, participants who had experienced both types of CSA had the lowest HRQoL and poorest mental health, whereas participants with no history of CSA had the highest scores for HRQoL as well as the best mental health.

Notably, in almost all measures, participants with non-contact CSA only were significantly more impaired than participants with no history of CSA. Males had better mental HRQoL as well as less mental health problems than females across all four groups.

Taken together, these results indicate that there is a gradient association between the severity of CSA and HRQoL and mental health. Furthermore, females reported lower scores than males in most dimensions of HRQoL and mental health. However, this was not specific for victims of CSA, confirming epidemiological findings on mental health in adolescence that show a higher prevalence of many mental disorders in girls.

Source:
Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

It Should Be Criminal To Encourage a Child To Transition Sexually Before Puberty

Ryland is a young girl who self-identifies as a boy. Her parents, with advice from professionals, endorsed the switch. Ryland will undergo treatment as she approaches puberty to delay that process, and she will receive hormone treatment to make her more masculine.

Her story can be read here. It has also been turned into a YouTube video which you can watch here. I have some issues with the story which I will comment on later. 

Blogger Lindsey Leigh Bentley identifies with Ryland as a pre-pubescent; then puberty happened! Please read her story:

I AM RYLAND – THE STORY OF A MALE-IDENTIFYING LITTLE GIRL WHO DIDN’T TRANSITION

BY LINDSAY LEIGH BENTLEY

I have been shying away from highly controversial topics on this blog recently because I just couldn’t take the drama that naturally associates with it.  But I keep hearing the story of Ryland, a child who was born a female, whose parents have transitioned her to male at 5 years old.  Because their daughter identified herself as a boy, and liked “boy” things as opposed to “girl” things, they cut off her hair, bought her “boy” clothes, and have begun telling her, and others, that she is a boy.

I have no degree in early childhood development, nor have I studied psychology.  I didn’t even graduate from College.

I am also not here to pass judgement on Ryland’s parents.  I believe that they are doing what they believe to be the most loving thing for their child. I’m simply sharing my story because I see so much of my 5-year-old self in this child.


I was born the second daughter to two loving, amazing, supportive parents.  They would go on to have 2 more daughters. The four of us couldn’t be more different, even down to our hair and eye color.  Our parents embraced our differences and allowed us to grow as individuals, not concerned with the social “norms” for girls.  I often joke that I was the boy my dad never had.  My dad is a free spirit, 100% unconcerned with what people think of him, and he thought nothing of “out of the box” behavior.  I function more as a firstborn than a second born (however, this does not make me the firstborn, amiright?)

Anyhow, even as a baby I seemed to prefer “boy” things.  I was rough, tough, and daring.  My parents had to cut my curly hair short because I would twist it into knots and refused to let my parents brush it.  I once managed to make my way onto the second story roof, and was gleefully running around, as my parents had simultaneous panic-attacks.  My toys of choice were sticks, sling-shots, bows & arrows, guns, mud, motorcycles, and monsters.  When my sister and I picked out “My Little Ponies” I chose a blue one, and promptly cut all of that lustrous long hair off as short as possible.  My barbie also got the chop.

I loved going on hunting trips with my dad and thought it was amazing when he taught me to pop the head off a dove. (PETA, please, no…just.  No.)

I wanted to be a boy.  Desperately wanted to be a boy.  I thought boys had more fun.  I felt like a boy in the way that our society views genders.  I liked blue and green more than pink and purple.  I remember sitting up as high as I could climb in our huge mulberry tree, bow & arrow in hand, trying to kiss my elbow (a neighbor lady had told me that if I could accomplish this, that I would turn into a boy, which was what I wanted in that moment, as a child, more than anything.)

Thankfully, my parents didn’t adhere to the archaic stereotypes that “boys like blue” and “girls like pink;”  that “boys play with dinosaurs, and girls play with dolls.”  Had they told me that liking these things made me a boy, I would have concluded that I was a boy.

They just let me be me.  They let me be a girl who wore jeans more often than skirts.  They let me play with slingshots rather than princess wands.  They didn’t conclude that I was gay, or transgender. They didn’t put me in a box that would shape my future, at the expense of my own free will.

My best friends growing up, until around the age of 14, were boys.  Sure, I had girl friends, but my best friends, the ones I identified with most, were boys.  Every evening after dinner I would go outside and play football with my neighbor friend, Tom.  My very best friend in the world was a boy named Robin.  His wife is a friend of mine to this day.  My friend Andrew and I would make swords out of plywood and burn our names in them with soldering irons.  We made elaborate models of “trampoline worlds” because, bouncing around is waaaay better than walking, right? I wished so badly that I could play baseball on my friend Jaime’s team with him.

At Thanksgiving we would play “cowboys & Indians” with my cousins and I was always, always, the wild Indian. Never the prairie maiden who had been captured….boooooring.

I even remember one Christmas, my sister and I were given porcelain figurine music boxes from my parents.  Her’s was of a girl with a lamb, mine a shepherd boy with a donkey.  They did this not because they considered me a boy, but because they knew I would like that one more.  I thought shepherd boys with donkeys were a heck of a lot more fun than a pretty blonde girl with a lamb.  Lambs are dumb.  Donkeys are crazy, wild, and fun!  My parents were just fine with me identifying more with the dirty, tough shepherd.

I hesitate to even add this, but I feel it is so important:  I even had an experience, around age 7, where a friend (girl) of mine experimented together during a sleepover. Looking back, I believe she had been molested and was acting out what had been done to her.  This doesn’t make me transgender.  It doesn’t make me a lesbian.  It made me a child growing up in a broken world.

In this day and age, I probably could have been labeled as transgender.  They would cut my hair off short (because, all boys have short hair, right?) I would be given “boy” clothes to wear, blue walls in my room rather than pink, and be told to pretend to have a penis, at least until I could have one surgically added. Had this happened, I can not even imagine how traumatic puberty would have been for me.

Fast forward to age 14/15 (late bloomer here) and I finally started going through puberty.  I had never really thought of the opposite sex in a sexual manner before.  My attraction was immediately, and is to this day, towards men.  At the risk of going all Shania on you,  I “feel” like a woman.  Had my parents decided, at age 5, that I was a boy, I can not imagine the confusion that I would have experienced during my teen years.

I still love some stereotypical “male” things.  Football remains my absolute favorite sport to watch.  I love fixing things around the house, and honestly, am often better at it than my husband.  I prefer to go barefoot and struggle to remember to wash my hair and pluck my eyebrows.  I enjoy doing mechanical things, and am not afraid to stand my own against jerky sub-contractors.  I hate clothes shopping. I like having muscles.  I love to exercise, and enjoy feeling really strong.  I am thankful that I feel confident to manage our home on my own while my husband travels.  I prefer Bourbon over a Cosmopolitan.

But I also love being a woman.  I love to feel beautiful, especially when I have an event with my husband.  I love putting on an apron and creating elaborate meals for friends and family.  I love nursing my babies.  I looooove going to the spa.



My husband is amazing at design and is the decorator/designer for our home.  He does most of the clothes shopping for both of us, and has no interest in learning how to change the oil in our car.  He is creative and artistic.  But he also loves to go hunting and fishing and has to handle any dead little animal that we find on our property because I can’t handle that stuff.

These things don’t make us gay or transgender, they make us unique human beings.  

Because my parents never forced me to, I never considered if some of the things that I enjoyed were “boy” things or “girl” things,  I was just me.  When we begin to tell boys that they must act “this” way, and that girls should act “that” way, and that if they don’t, they are transgender;  we put children in these tiny boxes that create confusion, frustration, and sometimes, lifelong psychological and emotional damage.

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From Raising Ryland:

41% of transgender people have attempted suicide. "I think the scary stats we see about transgender people are those who have probably not been affirmed by their families for a very long time or have kept it to themselves for a very long time," she said. "And then the coming out process is more difficult the older they are."

Those "scary stats" don't usually apply to children, like Ryland, who can live as the gender they identify with at an earlier age, according to Darlene Tando, a licensed clinical social worker and gender therapist who also appears in "Raising Ryland."

Tando uses words like 'I think' and 'probably' to introduce her opinion. One would think a gender therapist would actually have the data to make a definitive statement rather than stating her opinion.

I also think that her statement is completely wrong. Those children who have 'probably not been affirmed' or have 'kept it to themselves' are, almost certainly, not included in the 41% of Trans who have attempted suicide, for they haven't been identified as Trans.

In fact, research proves that she is completely wrong: Prevalence of suicide attempts is elevated among those who disclose to everyone that they are transgender or gender-non-conforming (50%), and among those that report others can tell always (42%), or most of the time (45%) that they are transgender or gender non-conforming even if they don’t tell them.

The same study reports that: Analysis of other demographic variables found prevalence of suicide attempts was highest among those who are younger (18 to 24: 45%). Younger yes, but not pre-pubescent. That 45% attempt suicide within 5 to 10 years (and who knows how many between 13 and 18), might lead one to conclude that puberty was, in fact, related to the suicide attempts. Curiously, and most unfortunately, the study didn't include anyone younger than 18.

“Overall, the most striking finding of our analysis was 

the exceptionally high prevalence of lifetime suicide 

attempts reported by NTDS respondents across all 

demographics and experiences.” - Williams Institute

From The Danish Girl is Nonsense:
The usual diagnosis for patients who identify as transgender is “gender dysphoria.” According to the DSM-5 (the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), gender dysphoria is characterized by a marked incongruence between one’s experienced/expressed gender and one’s biological sex, lasting at least six months. Although it isn’t talked about much, studies show a majority of transgender patients suffer from other comorbid (co-existing) disorders.

The conclusion should be obvious - gender dysphoria 

is a mental illness that needs to be treated as such 

not encouraged or enabled.

I believe it should be a criminal act to encourage a pre-pubescent child to transition to the opposite sex. Encouraging a pre-pubescent child to 'come-out' as a trans is very obviously putting that child into a much higher risk bracket for suicide later in life. 

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Our oldest son had very long, wavy blond hair for the first 3 years of his life until he requested to have a haircut like his grandpa.  People sometimes commented that they thought he was a girl, but I was often confused for a boy as a child so I didn’t worry about it.  He once came to me and asked if pink was a girl color, because someone had told him that it was, and he liked pink.  “No.  I responded.  Pink is just a color.”  Fully satisfied, it remained his favorite color for the rest of that week, at which point he moved on to orange, or green or purple or something else.  I want my children to be fully accepted for their interests, without making those interests define the core of who they are.  Henry can like pink just as much as I can like tearing up concrete without it defining our gender.



It grieves me to think of what Ryland’s parents may be robbing her of (????) by choosing a gender for her at such a young age.  I hope that, if/when she decides that she is a woman, that they will support her in this.  That they won’t force her into their agenda to save face.

I am writing this to offer another perspective.  Because I believe in freedom.  I believe that people should be free to have interests that don’t fit the social norm.  That children should be allowed to be children.  With all of their silly, fantastical play.  They should be allowed to believe that they are a dog, a Superhero, a Mommy, or a rock.

I am so thankful that my parents gave me the freedom to act more boyish than my sisters.  I am thankful that they didn’t freak out, or make any life-altering decisions for me.  I am so thankful that, for a season of my life, I was allowed to act more like a stereotpyical boy than a girl.  I am also thankful that I was allowed to become more feminine later in life, when it felt natural to do so.

I hope that Ryland’s parents will offer her this same freedom.

live well. be well.