What we are all afraid of

What we are all afraid of
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Archnut

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Can somebody direct me to research that says something along the lines of " some children who have suffered abuse go on to abuse in later life but the MAJORITY do not".

I'm having a very heavy discussion with someone (not here) about this particular subject I just would like to present some professional research info to them.

Feeling pretty good at the moment as my youngest grandaughter was Christened yesterday.

Cheers

Dan
 
https://www.gao.gov/archive/1996/gg96178.pdf

This is a bit old now, but this was a 1996 effort by the US GAO to look at 25 studies of abusers. It came from a slightly skewed perspective, as it reviewed mostly studies involving known abusers/rapists and asked whether they had been abused themselves.

Nevertheless, the results were basically similar to everything else I've read, suggesting that the process of abuse does not create future abusers.
 
A couple more links for you. The last one from 2001 has some good notes. Basically everything I've read on this subject says the same thing. Abusers are more likely than the general population to have been abused themselves. But abuse survivors are only marginally more likely to turn into abusers.

And it makes sense on the very face of it when you consider how many more survivors there are than perpetrators.

https://www.jimhopper.com/cycle/

https://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/179/6/482
 
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