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Watching Deadly Women episode "Kinky Killers", Candace DeLong states that children who are sexually abused and grow up to sexually abuse others is rare, about 33% of them do it.

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Watching Deadly Women episode "Kinky Killers", Candace DeLong states that children who are sexually abused and grow up to sexually abuse others is rare, about 33% of them do it.

That stat is useless until we know what percentage of children who were NOT sexually abused grow up to be sexual abusers for a point of comparison.

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Watching Deadly Women episode "Kinky Killers", Candace DeLong states that children who are sexually abused and grow up to sexually abuse others is rare, about 33% of them do it.

That stat is useless until we know what percentage of children who were NOT sexually abused grow up to be sexual abusers for a point of comparison.

Also, I would like to see how they have done the math. 33% is 1/3. Sounds a tad bit too neat to be true.

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Watching Deadly Women episode "Kinky Killers", Candace DeLong states that children who are sexually abused and grow up to sexually abuse others is rare, about 33% of them do it.

That stat is useless until we know what percentage of children who were NOT sexually abused grow up to be sexual abusers for a point of comparison.

Still, it blows a hole in the stereotype of sexually abused children becoming sexual abusers.

Another site, statistic brain, has percentage at 30%

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Watching Deadly Women episode "Kinky Killers", Candace DeLong states that children who are sexually abused and grow up to sexually abuse others is rare, about 33% of them do it.

That stat is useless until we know what percentage of children who were NOT sexually abused grow up to be sexual abusers for a point of comparison.

Also, I would like to see how they have done the math. 33% is 1/3. Sounds a tad bit too neat to be true.

DeLong is a psychological profiler. She appears on several ID programs, including Deadly Women and Faces of Evil, the latter involving her interviewing female murderers.

I was sexually abused and I'm neither violent nor a sexual predator. I can only speak for myself, and not other victims of sexual abuse.

I wonder, as julie had mentioned, how many non-abused children grow up to be abusers, as opposed to the ones who were abused who grow up to continue the cycle? Also, the other way around.

That would be an interesting study.

I don't think of 1/3 as a small percentage. That's alarmingly large. I also want to know what percentage of people who aren't abused grow up to abuse, or what percentage of abusers were abused.

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Watching Deadly Women episode "Kinky Killers", Candace DeLong states that children who are sexually abused and grow up to sexually abuse others is rare, about 33% of them do it.

That stat is useless until we know what percentage of children who were NOT sexually abused grow up to be sexual abusers for a point of comparison.

Also, I would like to see how they have done the math. 33% is 1/3. Sounds a tad bit too neat to be true.

DeLong is a psychological profiler. She appears on several ID programs, including Deadly Women and Faces of Evil, the latter involving her interviewing female murderers.

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Watching Deadly Women episode "Kinky Killers", Candace DeLong states that children who are sexually abused and grow up to sexually abuse others is rare, about 33% of them do it.

And from what I've heard more than once, rapists were often raised by single, violent mothers. Don't know the stats on that.

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Watching Deadly Women episode "Kinky Killers", Candace DeLong states that children who are sexually abused and grow up to sexually abuse others is rare, about 33% of them do it.

That stat is useless until we know what percentage of children who were NOT sexually abused grow up to be sexual abusers for a point of comparison.

Still, it blows a hole in the stereotype of sexually abused children becoming sexual abusers.

Another site, statistic brain, has percentage at 30%

Uh, not really. One in three is a pretty high ratio. For comparison, less than 4% of the US population identifies as gay. That's 1 in 25. Assuming for a moment that sexual orientation is not affected by having been sexually abused, a sexually-abused child is more than 8 times as likely to grow up to be a sexual abuser than they are to grow up to be gay.

Odds are, we all personally know at least a few gay people - they aren't exactly rare.

So your better hope that people who have been sexually abused as children are more likely than those who were not to become sexual abusers, because 1 in three is a damned high number. I would hate for that to be the norm.