The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #50194   Message #4173012
Posted By: keberoxu
24-May-23 - 11:36 AM
Thread Name: BS: Rolf Harris accordion catches fire! /OBIT 2023
Subject: RE: BS: Rolf Harris accordion catches fire! /OBIT 2023
A discussion, however brief, is needed.
As a survivor of sexual abuse in childhood, I have sought professional help from a whole list of professionals. They agree on one point, which can be summed up in two words:
learned behavio[u]r.
Simply, offenders are not so much born with it as that they learn after they are born, and very early in life. Many of them were victims before they were offenders, although there are exceptions.
Certainly, in the case of my family, I can say two things:
Alcoholism was a factor;
the offenders whom I personally knew had learned in early childhood what they perpetrated as adults.

It all points to some very deep-rooted problems. It is not easy for human society to take a hard look at itself and try to do better.