Title: 10 Things You Might Not Realize About Child Sexual Abusers | Working Mother
Headings: 10 Things You Might Not Realize About Child Sexual Abusers
10 Things You Might Not Realize About Child Sexual Abusers
Knowing the truth can keep your kid from becoming a victim.
1. Most sex offenders do not re-offend.
2. Sex offenses usually happen over time.
3. Abusers will often desensitize a child to physical touch.
4. Sex offenders try to decrease the likelihood of disclosure.
5. Sex crimes have more to do with the situation than the person.
6. Child molesters often keep secrets with their victims.
7. Boyfriends pose a higher risk than do biological dads.
8. Young women underestimate the personal risk of sexual abuse and assault.
9. LGBTQ youth are at twice the risk of sexual violence.
10. Delayed disclosure of abuse is common.
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Content: Abusers will often desensitize a child to physical touch. Tickling and playful touch are common. Abusers want the child to be accustomed to physical touch so that it doesn’t seem out of place or wrong when inappropriate touch begins to occur. 4. Sex offenders try to decrease the likelihood of disclosure. Whether by direct threat or mere insinuation of a negative outcome, sexual abusers are careful to take measures that decrease the odds that a child will tell someone. Often they simply convince them that no one will believe them if they do tell. 5. Sex crimes have more to do with the situation than the person. It’s easy to think that someone who abuses a child is “sick,” but research suggests that a lot of abuse has to do with the situation itself.