What is the probability of a girl who was molested as a child to grow up and b a pedofile herself?

maybe they would have a higher chance then someone who was not molested, but really, it depends on the person…

chances are high… especially the younger she was… because it puts a mental concept of getting a bit of revenge even if they dont know… its weird… but the people who dont become pedofiles are most likely to suffer life of pain and some other psychological stress.. it can cause sever traumatic thoughts like nightmares.. others can get over it quickly depending on their regular lifestyle (but its extremely unlikely)

First I am not a professional so everything I say is my opinion and/or my experience. If the person questions the possibility it will to a lesser degree help to prevent it. When we respond to any event, we can do it from a victim’s perspective by ‘reacting’ to it or we can do it from an empowered perspective and ‘respond’ to it. There is a big difference between the two. When a molested person continues the abuse, it comes from being a victim; it is an automatic reaction. When a molested person seeks counseling to understand the dynamics of what happened, they can gain the ability to choose not to continue the abuse. It gives you choices that you didn’t have as a victim. The first choice, in the beginning, will always be to react; but by learning other options, you become empowered over the event and choose another that does not create another victim. Part of the dynamics (the force behind continuing the abuse) of the victim victimizing another is that it is familiar and the 2nd generation victimizer reacts by doing what was done to them. It doesn’t take any thinking, just a reaction. Counseling breaks the reaction chain and offers choices, which empower you to take a second to think and respond instead. So to answer your question if the girl doesn’t get adequate counseling I would say it is quite possible. If she gets effective counseling I would say she has a better chance of avoiding it.

Ashley, that is a sad story- glad you survived but you do need to work on your grammar and spelling… Are you in school?

I do not understand any of you logic- on what experience or research did you base this answer?

If she gets effective counseling I would say she has a better chance of avoiding it.

Perhaps even a guaranteed chance??

Very well written, very good logic- thanks for your insight.

now that i think of it…some grown enraged by their tagic pasts and decide to act for it in a proactive way…. for example a woman who was abused as a child, teen, or adult caould choose to join an organization to prevent acts like these from occuring.. because they know how it changed their lives and they wouldnt want it to happen to another innocent person… women tend to have nightmares about the event and try to forget, so they tend not to talk about it and leave it to the past.

Alright, first of all, there is absolutely no way to get those statistics. Because we can’t count every female who’s been abused, and then go see how many of those become child abusers. Now, from what we do know about abusers, a large percent have been abused. But you’ll note the difference, it doesn’t mean that a large percent of abuse victims will become abusers. This is like saying all birds have wings, but not everything that has wings is a bird. There may be a higher than normal chance, but there is not a significant chance. And I want to point out, there is a large percent of people who sexually abuse children who are not pedo.philes. Pedo.philes are attracted to prepubescent children. It’s a particular subset of people. And there is no therapy that can help them to fix that. There’s therapy that can help them learn to control the impulse, but nothing can fix the actual attraction. That is different from abusers who abuse children for other reasons. That can be helped with therapy. To a certain degree.

The probability increases with the length of time the abuse lasted and the younger the age the abuse began at. It is a struggle, but the more aware you are of the consequences of the abuse and your own emotions concerning it the simpler a matter it is to deal with the urges that may come as a result: increased or decresed sexuality, the urge to hurt someone else or yourself, fear of the known or unknown, the need to distance yourself from others or constantly seeking approval, etc.

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And how exactly do I do that? I have addictive personality as well so that doesn’t help anything either

By becoming addicted to changing your life for the better.

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yes i am in school i am a junior but i am also dyslexic so i have a hard time with spelling and math and reading