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Originally Posted by BigNumbers
Can you give us some peer-reviewed support for such a broad statement... I've never heard that before.
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Yeah there is no causal relationship. The majority of sexually abused children do not grow up to be adult offenders, nor do the majority of adult offenders report childhood sexual abuse. In all likelihood other environmental factors have more influence on later psychopathology in adulthood. Some US government research office officially declared there to be no causal relationship in the early 2000's.
Also thanks very much to the other posts here. I get too f'ed up about this to string together a coherent sentence. Some well written posts.