(October 3, 2015 at 1:05 pm)abaris Wrote:(October 3, 2015 at 1:01 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: The takeaway from the study seemed to me to be this: If you had to leave your child in the care of a stranger (which you should not do if at all possible), a woman is a better choice than a man. And a gay man is a better choice than a heterosexual man.
Only in most cases it's not the strangers you should be a afraid of. The molesters usually are very close.
Yes. A child is vastly more likely to be molested by someone who is known than by someone who is a stranger. But the main point still applies. The person who is most likely to molest the child identifies as a heterosexual man. Women rarely sexually molest children. Men who publicly identify as gay rarely molest children. The typical child molester is a man who identifies as heterosexual. Even the ones who molest boys.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
