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How to Identify a Pedophile
All parents want to protect their children from predators, but how do you keep your kids safe when you don't know how to spot one? Anyone can be a pedophile, so identifying one can be difficult - especially because most pedophiles are initially trusted by the children they abuse. Read on to learn which behaviors and traits are red flags, what situations to avoid, and how to deter pedophiles from targeting your child.
StepsTips and Warnings
Part One: Knowing the Profile of a Pedophile
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Understand that any adult could be a pedophile. There is no one physical characteristic, profession, or personality type that all pedophiles share. Pedophiles can be any sex or race, and their religious affiliations, occupations and hobbies are as diverse as anyone else's. A pedophile may appear to be charming, loving, and completely good-natured while harboring predatory thoughts that he or she is adept at hiding. That means you should never dismiss the idea that someone could be a pedophile out of hand.[1]
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Know that most pedophiles are known to the children they abuse. Thirty percent of children who have been sexually abused were abused by a family member, and 60 percent were abused by an adult they knew who was not a family member. That means only 10 percent of children who are sexually abused were targeted by a total stranger.[2]
In most cases, the pedophile turns out to be someone known to the child through school or another activity, such as a neighbor, teacher, coach, member of the clergy, music instructor, or babysitter.[3]
Family members like fathers, grandfathers, uncles, cousins, stepparents, and so on may also be sexual predators.
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Know the common characteristics of a pedophile. While anyone can turn out to be a pedophile, the majority of pedophiles are men, regardless of whether their victims are male or female.[4] Many sexual predators have a history of abuse in their own past, either physical or sexual.
Some also have mental illness, such as a mood or personality disorder.[5]
Heterosexual and homosexual men are equally likely to be pedophiles. The idea that homosexual men are more likely to be pedophiles is a complete myth.[6]
Female pedophiles are more likely to abuse boys than girls.
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Be aware of common behaviors demonstrated by pedophiles. Pedophiles often don't display as much interest in adults as they do in children. They may have jobs that allow them to be around children of a certain age group, or contrive other ways to spend time with children by acting as a coach or babysitter.[7]
Pedophiles tend to talk about children as though they are adults. They might refer to a child as they would refer to an adult friend or lover. [8]
Pedophiles often say they love all children or feel as though they are still children.
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Look for signs of grooming. The term "grooming" refers to the process the pedophile undertakes to gain a child's trust, and sometimes the parents' trust as well. Over the course of months or even years, a pedophile will increasingly become a trusted friend of the family, offering to babysit, take the child shopping or on trips, or spend time with the child in other ways. Many pedophiles won't actually begin abusing a child until trust has been gained.
Pedophiles look for children who are vulnerable to their tactics because they lack emotional support or aren't getting enough attention at home. The pedophile will attempt to step in as the "parent" figure for the child.
Some pedophiles prey on the children of single parents who aren't available to provide as much supervision.
A child molester will often use a range of games, tricks, activities and language to gain trust and/or deceive a child. These include: keeping of secrets (secrets are valuable to most kids, being seen as something "adult" and a source of power), sexually explicit games, fondling, kissing, touching, sexually suggestive behavior, exposing a child to pornographic material, coercion, bribery, flattery, andworst of allaffection and love. Be aware that these tactics are ultimately used to isolate and confuse your child.