Your Child Is in Danger! - Conclusion of An Urgent Problem

 

So child molestation is neither new nor rare; it is a long-standing problem that is epidemic today. Its impact can be devastating.  Many survivors suffer profound feelings of worthlessness and low self-esteem. Experts in the field have listed some common aftereffects of incest on girls , such as running away, drug and alcohol abuse, depression, attempted suicide, delinquency, promiscuity, sleep disturbances, and learning problems.  Long-range effects may include poor parenting skills, frigidity, distrust of men, marriage to a pedophile, lesbianism, prostitution, and child molestation itself.

These aftereffects are not inevitable for a victim, nor could anyone rightly excuse wrong conduct solely on the grounds of having been assaulted in the past.  Abuse does not predestine its victims to be immoral or delinquent, nor does it dissolve all their personal responsibility for the choices they make later in life.  But these common outcomes for victims are real dangers. They add urgency to the question, How can we protect children from molestation?

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