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Child Abuse

However, even social conditions promote child abuse to a degree, like the high number of single and working parents, “Often, the perpetrator was sexually victimized as a child or youth, and unlike others, did not heal from the experience. The result frequently is distorted sexual drives and emotional needs. Divorce and single parenting expose kids to other men who do not have a biological or long-term commitment to the youngsters’ well-being” (Morales, 1998, 2).

Another complex social issue that often enables the perpetrator is the present inadequacy of the legal system to intervene in abuse cases or to stop the perpetrator from acting again. Adding to this problem, interaction and dynamics between the law, welfare agencies, parents and additional problems created via technology (Internet pornography, etc.) complicate the process. One notorious child abuser who murdered his eight year old victim was released from jail in Texas because he had served the mandatory sentence. This was true even though the perpetrator begged to be castrated because he knew he would abuse more children, “With all that I have cold-heartedly learned in prison, there is no way that I will ever be caught again. I am doomed to eventually rape, then murder my poor little victims to keep them from telling on me…Will your children by me next victims” (Wetzstein, 1996, 1).

On a global scale, many of the perpetrators are enabled in their behavior by laws that tolerate their actions or from parents who willingly participate in the process for profit. The areas where communism was replaced by free markets have turned into virtual bordellos amidst societies struggling to survive economically. Many of these areas are controlled by Mafia forces and legislation regarding child pornography are lax, making many countries abroad havens for pedophiles and sexual psychopaths, ...

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