Claims of sex abuse by women grow

In the US the recorded reports for unwanted sexual advances from teachers, women make up 40% of them....... It is a farce to think that women are less capable of such perversion........

Apparently, recent efforts to empower children to report inappropriate adult behavior are bearing this bitter fruit. It does not surprise me that women are capable of sexual abuse, but it has to be very difficult for a child to report his or her own mother. What a terrible task that would be for anyone.

It isn't that I do not believe that it happens, I know for a fact that it does. I just wonder about the numbers or facts behind the numbers. A woman's sex drive is not the same as a man's. There is a biological reason why more men commit acts of sexual abuse than women do.

I also know for a fact that some children do lie about parental abuse sometimes. More children are now aware that they can punish a parent by making up a story without understanding the consequences of that lie.

If the numbers are legitimate this is a disturbing trend.

I predict that soon the truth will come out about all the sexual abuse by Nuns of children in Catholic parochial schools. This has been covered up tight. We heard all about the priests in the past 10 years, the time has come for the world to come to terms with the female clergy who have been doing the same things.

And while we are on that topic, we should also take serious look at Evangelicals and Pentecostals because there is hidden sexual abuse there too.

It is a very disturbing trend in the US. Abuse is abuse no matter of who or where it comes from and the penalties need to just as stiff for women as men.

Women were not capable of this prior to the women's liberation movement, but since that movement, some women have become selfish, abandoning family for work, abandoning child rearing for self interests. What was considered crazy 30 years ago can be a consideration today. What a sick world we have become!

In response to regjoeschmo -
While I went through high school(1988-1992), I heard all the time teenage girls bragging about who they were/are with, and what they did(it was about status). On some levels it was about competing/competition between the teen females. I heard teen boys talk about sex, publicly. But both male and female teens always made sex jokes, innuendo out of something innocent. Heck, when I was a teen, to fit in, I knew at times I was just as guilty of making a sexual innuendo out of something innocent.

I know for a fact girls are far from innocent as our society portrays girls to be.

I believe most crimes are crimes of opportunity. As females gain opportunity, wealth and power, the number of crimes they commit increasingly approaches that of males. While I doubt females will one day be as violent as males I see this as a innate lack of opportunity equality, due primarily to physical differences, not some sign of innate moral superiority as some would claim. Where women have the power, domestic situations being a good example, they commit a crimes at the same or even higher rates as their male counterparts. I remember reading a recent article that female perpetrated violent crime is growing far more quickly than male perpetrated violent crime. If this keeps up we will finally see criminal gender equality... and what a wonderful world that would be.

Reg, I was not referring to teenagers. This story is about adult abusers. Teenage sex drive is not even in the same category as adult sex drive. They are hormonally insane. They do grow out of it in most cases.

It is absolutely not ludicrous to say that the sex drive of adult men and women are the same. I do not know your sex but woman can go for days without thinking about sex. A man can't go five minutes unless he is sleeping and even then he is usually dreaming about it. That is not my opinion. That is a fact based on psychological data from numerous studies.

Psychology is not an exact science..... All factors are circumstantial... This is psych 101...... There are men who can not think about sex longer than some women and vice versa....... To hold onto gender stereotypes in making such conclusions is as unprofessional as one can get.....

Psychology is not an exact science. I absolutely agree. I am not saying that anything is absolute and that there are no exceptions to the rule, but sometimes "stereotypes" have a strong relation to fact. I do not know what you do for a living, but I am a social worker so I am speaking from 25 years of experience. I am not a social worker for the world, but in my microcosm, men are usually the abusive force in the household. I did not say that I never saw it from women. I just said that I am a little suspicious of the numbers because in my experience it is predominantly the male that is the abuser.

How is that unprofessional?

In my experience in social services, I have also seen men be the abuser much more than the women. Although I do not negate that women can be just as abusive as men.

Men do not report the abuse as easily as women do. And when they do they are laughed at and further emotionally and legally abused.

Sad, sad, sad. Doesn't it seem like sex abuse claims, themselves, are growing in numbers?!?! It's not just women culprits that are increasing - the article points out that men culprits have also increased, and still account for the majority. It just seems to be humans. We've peaked,... as societies, cultures, families, a species. Civilization and evolution have all but halted, and things are getting bad out there. While it is disheartening that women have entered the realm of abuse exponentially,... females cannot be singled out, nor can stigmas be placed on the gender itself. As proven daily,... ANYONE (man, woman, child, relative) is capable of these atrocities, and horrendous crimes are rising. (ENTER: my cynicism) Sad, sad, sad.

jubal I agree with your observations but see them as symptoms of the problems of an increasingly misandric society. Just as the differences in the UCR, police reported, and NCVS, survey reported, reported crime statistics can shine some light into the dark or hidden crime in society so to can the differences in reported domestic violence and studies on domestic violence shed light on the extent and demographics of this social problem.

There are literally hundreds of studies with combined samples sizes in the hundreds of thousands that show domestic violence is either gender nuetral or more likely female perpetrated. If one sided female are the perpetrators 70% of the time, that's more than twice the male rate, or if mutual it is more likely initiated by females.

There exists a fundamental discrepancy between the public perception and the reality of domestic violence and abuse. This discrepancy is putting males, females, and their children at greater danger and interfering with solving the problem of domestic violence.

Here is just a small sampling of some of the studies on domestic violence.
http://current.com/1mb5u4c

@bullpcp, thank you for the link. I will read through the studies. I find these studies fascinating.

jubal that was rather noble of you. I hope they both appreciated your efforts and disassociated themselves from one another.

regjoeschmo that is really messed up. California doubles male arrests and quadruples female arrests in domestic violence then decides to cancel the mandatory program in favor of a pro, arrest the male, program. Why because we don't want to unfairly prosecute the female "victim". This is what I meant by the need for accurate information to base policies on.

The link i posted above is the largest study done on DV......and upon further review current decided to chop the link.......

http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm

SUMMARY: This bibliography examines 271 scholarly investigations: 211 empirical studies and 60 reviews and/or analyses, which demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners. The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 365,000.

Hello....equal rights demands one to think that women are just as capable. Unless you're a sexist.