Re: Followup to Curious
Submitted by World Perfect on 2002-08-3 09:41:25, Saturday
In reply to Followup to Curious submitted by Drifter on 2002-08-2 23:14:25, Friday
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Wilson and Cox made a research based on a non-clinical sample of pedophiles in England in 1983. Among other conclusions, they found out that: Response to our questionnaire yielded the classic picture of the domineering, overprotective mother and weak or absent father that has so often been implicated, theoretically and empirically, in the origins of homosexuality and other sexual disturbances (Davison and Neale, 1978). We also noted a tendency for our paedophiles to produce more negative descriptions of their parents (particularly the father) than did a normal sample of men. While it is tempting to view these observations as implying that difficulties in relating to or identifying with the parents were in some way causally responsible for the manifestation of paedophilia, there are several reasons for reserving judgement on this point. First, there is doubt as to whether we can place full reliance on descriptions of parents provided by subjects who are being clinically or scientifically investigated. Our subjects may be responding partly in order to explain or justify their condition or to support some psychoanalytic theory of aetiology with which they are familiar. It would be more convincing if objective personality scores could be obtained from the parents them-selves, but this has not been achieved to our knowledge. Another problem is that the negative attitude of the parents may be a reaction to the perception of their son as deviant, rather than a prior cause of that deviance. Thirdly, it is possible that the difficulties in social communication which contribute to the development of paedophilia are shared in the family by genetic constitution. All things considered, while it is useful to have information about the way paedophiles perceive their parents, we can have little confidence regarding its aetiological significance. Source: GLENN D. WILSON AND DAVID N. COX : The Child-Lovers - A Study of Paedophiles in Society. The entire book is online at: http://www.ipce.org (click on "Library" --> "Scienfific books") |
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