Not exact matches
Or simply talk to anyone who works in the area of
child protection and they will tell you
most abusers are family members, uncles, brothers, etc..
Sadly you also throw around the term «
child abuse» with a cavalier looseness that suggests you don't have the foggiest idea what
child abuse is... it's a shame abused
children everywhere can't write in and tell you about their trevails at the hands of an
abuser... Jesus Christ was no
abuser... if I'm wrong about Jesus, he was at least a Rabbi who loved his followers, and who taught, peace, compassion, forgiveness, and inclusiveness... If I'm right, Jesus is the
most amazing, wonderful gift GOD could ever give to his beloved creation... in either event, belief in him, and sharing those beliefs with
children is not abuse, it's loving and nurturing fact based belief, not mythology...
Most of the cases of sexual abuse in the study were severe, and
children tended to respond by accommodating their
abusers.
In practice
most child abuse compensation claims are brought against an institutional defendant rather than the individual
abuser who committed the abuse.
Studies of domestic violence victims in shelters have shown that the women
most likely to return to their
abuser have
children and are financially dependent on their partners (read more about this research here).1 But less is known about individuals in dating or cohabitating relationships who have financial independence, a fairly good education, but a lousy style of relating with their partners that could be construed as downright aggressive.
A common perception is that
most children who have been abused will grow up to become
abusers — especially boys.
If you consider any exposure to violence as a
child, current batterers are a little more than 2x as likely to come from nonviolent as violent homes (7:3); if you consider only
children from the
most violent homes, the ratio for current
abusers is 7:1 (because there are so few from the
most violent homes).
In
most cases the
abuser is someone known to the
child or teen, and the
abusers are often very skilled at hiding their acts.