To believe in forced castration?

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Sorry if this has been done before, but AIBU to think forced castration should be in place for paedophiles and people of child bearing age who have been convicted of any form of child abuse?

I get people have bodily autonomy; but the protection of children surely comes first?!

Just read the thread where a couple have already lost one child to care, are neglectful to another (disturbed) child, with social services intervention, and now pregnant with another.

I also have a family member who has 6 children with different inappropriate fathers, in and out of prison, social services involvement and criminal convictions. Providing a shit childhood for multiple innocent children who will be affected for life.

Why are we so again castration as a mechanism to stop further reproduction in damaging environments?

In many cases, people with prior child abuse convictions just have subsequent babies immediately removed. What's the point? Just stop them being able to have kids and the problems sorted?

@WiseUpJanetWeiss if you go to your local uni library, you could do some research on the term "intergenerational crime". You'll find a lot of studies. You might need to do some searching and synthesis for specific questions you might have.

A good general purpose read (or listen to audiobook) is "The Body Keeps the Score". It discusses more broadly the repeating patterns of abuse through generations. Parts may be controversial, but it's an IMPORTANT book. Child abuse, and the follow on impacts from that, etc. The stats are shocking.