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    Child Molesters, Child Rapists, and Child Sexual Abuse: Why and How Sex Offenders Abuse: Child Molestation, Rape, and Incest Stories, Studies, and Models
    Child Molesters, Child Rapists, and Child Sexual Abuse: Why and How Sex Offenders Abuse: Child Molestation, Rape, and Incest Stories, Studies, and Models
    Child Molesters, Child Rapists, and Child Sexual Abuse: Why and How Sex Offenders Abuse: Child Molestation, Rape, and Incest Stories, Studies, and Models
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    Child Molesters, Child Rapists, and Child Sexual Abuse: Why and How Sex Offenders Abuse: Child Molestation, Rape, and Incest Stories, Studies, and Models

    By Lynn Daugherty

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    Why would anyone sexually abuse a child? How does it happen!

    Dr. Lynn Daugherty, clinical psychologist and award-winning author of the classic bestseller "Why Me? Help for Victims of Child Sexual Abuse (Even if they are adults now)" addresses these difficult questions in this book, "Child Molesters, Child Rapists, and Child Sexual Abuse."

    Clear explanations in easy-to-understand language, illustrated with stories from both victims and abusers, help you:
    ~ Recognize circumstances that allow child sexual abuse to take place.
    ~ Identify motivations of different types of sex offenders: regressed vs fixated child molesters, anger vs power vs sadistic child rapists, female abusers, adolescent abusers, sociopaths.
    ~ Understand why and how someone could sexually abuse a child.

    Dr. Daugherty guides parents, former victims, mental health professionals new to the field, and the general public to understanding those who sexually abuse children with this concise book (15,000 words, about 60 pages if it were a paperback).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLynn Daugherty
    Release dateNov 17, 2011
    ISBN9781466103450
    Child Molesters, Child Rapists, and Child Sexual Abuse: Why and How Sex Offenders Abuse: Child Molestation, Rape, and Incest Stories, Studies, and Models
    Author

    Lynn Daugherty

    Clinical psychologist Dr. Lynn Daugherty, an award-winning author and an internationally respected expert on child sexual abuse, has been bringing hope and healing to victims and their families for more than twenty-five years.

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    • 3/5
      As enlightening as this book is there is no fixing these people and it has been proven time and time again.
    • 4/5
      This book attempts to explain why and how sex offenders abuse children. It is written in a question and answer format, which seems particularly directed towards a younger audience. It includes descriptions of particular behaviors and characteristics and then often has a story written in the child molesters own words. It could also be used by a counselor or therapist to help a younger child understand why something bad happened to them. It emphasizes that it is not the child's fault, which I think is a very important message. Overall, I thought this was a great book, for a younger audience. Older teenagers and adults may find the language used a bit simplistic.

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    • 5/5
      This book satiated all my curiosity about child sexual abuse. It answered the common questions forming in my mind. It explained the who, what, why, and how of child sexual abuse. The book contains brief incidents of child abuse, these terse stories I believe came from the victims themselves. Some parts of the book are in question and answer format which made it easier for me to digest the thought of the paragraphs.I recommend this book to all readers. To the victims, you'll learn through this book that it is very possible to live again normal lives. To the abusers, molesters, and rapists, you'll come to know by reading this book the effects of your misdeeds, may you be enlightened and become changed men. To the parents of the abused, this book will be very helpful to you in guiding your children.

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    Child Molesters, Child Rapists, and Child Sexual Abuse - Lynn Daugherty

    Child Molesters, Child Rapists, and Child Sexual Abuse

    Why and How Sex Offenders Abuse:

    Child Molestation, Rape, and Incest Stories, Studies, and Models

    by

    Dr. Lynn Daugherty

    Author of the

    award-winning bestseller

    Why Me?

    Help for Victims of Child Sexual Abuse

    (Even if they are adults now)

    and selections from it,

    Child Molestation Stories

    Voices of Survivors

    of Child Sexual Abuse

    Published by

    Cleanan Press, Inc.

    Roswell, New Mexico USA

    Copyright 2011 Lynn Daugherty

    Smashwords Edition

    Table of Contents

    Title Page

    Warning, Disclaimer

    Introduction

    Chapter 1. Questions and Answers about Child Sexual Abuse

    Chapter 2. How Does Child Sexual Abuse Happen?

    Chapter 3. Who Abuses Children Sexually?

    Chapter 4. Child Molesters

    Chapter 5. Child Rapists

    Chapter 6. Female Sexual Abusers

    Chapter 7. Children Who Abuse Other Children

    Chapter 8. Other Types of Child Sexual Abusers

    Chapter 9. Treatment of Child Sexual Abusers

    Afterword

    About the Author

    Additional Resources

    Acknowledgements

    Extended Copyright

    Dr. Lynn Daugherty’s Books and eBooks

    A Selection from Why Me? Help for Victims of Child Sexual Abuse (Even if they are adults now)

    Warning—Disclaimer

    Reading this book could bring on strong, unpleasant thoughts and feelings. These could even lead to thoughts of suicide or other injury to self or others. If you find yourself overwhelmed by these thoughts or feelings, please seek professional mental health services immediately!

    This book is not intended to replace the services of a professional mental health counselor, or to provide professional psychological services to you. If you need expert professional help, you should seek the services of a competent mental health professional.

    Every effort has been made to make this book as accurate as possible. However, mistakes, both typographical and in content, may occur. Furthermore, this book contains information that is current only up to the date of publication. Therefore, this text should be used only as a general guide to understanding child sexual abuse and abusers and not as the ultimate source of information. Please learn as much as possible about child sexual abuse and abusers from all available sources and tailor the information to your own individual needs.

    The author and Cleanan Press, Inc. shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused, or alleged to have been caused, directly or indirectly, by the information contained in this book.

    Return to Table of Contents

    Introduction

    Widespread public awareness of child sexual abuse has only begun to develop during the last few decades. Even experts in the field are just beginning to study it carefully.

    Many questions about child sexual abuse still remain unanswered. With time, definitive answers will be discovered.

    Fortunately, much information is already available. Current studies and research provide at least some answers to some questions that more and more people are asking right now:

    What is child sexual abuse? How common is it? Who are its victims? (Chapter 1)

    How can child sexual abuse take place? (Chapter 2)

    Who are these people who abuse children sexually and why do they do it? (Chapter 3-8)

    Can child sexual abusers stop abusing? (Chapter 9)

    This book is written to provide you—a parent, a former victim, a mental health professional new to the field, or a concerned member of the general public—with a basic understanding of how and why child sexual abuse takes place in our world today, and to give you insight into some of the motivations that lead people to abuse children sexually.

    ~ ~ ~

    A Note about the Stories of Abuse: Only actual personal stories of victims and abusers are included in this book. They are selected to illustrate various types of abuse and abusers. Some details of the stories have been changed to protect the privacy of the individuals involved. When a particular type of abuser or abuse is not illustrated with a story it is because the author never encountered that particular type of abuser in her practice of psychology.

    Return to Table of Contents

    Chapter 1. Facts About Child Sexual Abuse

    These are common basic questions about child sexual abuse:

    What is sexual abuse?

    Sexual abuse takes place any time a person is tricked, trapped, forced or bribed into sexual activity. It most often involves unwanted touching of the victim, but can involve any of a wide variety of sexually motivated activities.

    Why is sexual abuse wrong?

    Sexual abuse is wrong because it hurts people! Sometimes it hurts the victim physically. More often it causes the victim to suffer psychologically. It can cause fear, confusion, anger, shame, depression and lowered self-esteem for the victim. These can lead to other serious problems later in life.

    Each person’s body is private and belongs to that person alone. Each person has the right to decide who may touch his or her body, when it may be touched, and how. Sexual abuse violates the right of each person to make important decisions about his or her own body.

    What is the difference between sexual abuse and normal sex play?

    It is normal for children to explore their own and other children’s bodies and for children to touch their own bodies or those of other children in ways that feel good. This normal sex play is one way we learn about our bodies and our own likes and dislikes. It is also one way we learn about the bodies of other people.

    Sexual abuse is different. It involves sexual contact that is tricked, trapped, forced or bribed. Usually the abuser is older, more knowledgeable, or more powerful than the victim and takes advantage

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