cori, sorry I didn't mean that this happens in Western societies only.
Somehow, the net has increased these incidents to that of an industry. I mentioned Indonesia and the Philippines as tourist "attractions". There has been a lot of incidents highlighting the West's. Remember the RC clergy in the US involved in chil abuse?
In the East, these things happen, mostly for need of money, but I haven't heard of the sort of sickness where babies are attacked.
I don't want to call it paedophilia. Isn't philia associated with love. This isn't love. It is hate for humanity.
ABout the guy who doesn't want to bring up other people's children, I think he is missing out. I love children, irrespective of whose children they are, I would give them all that fathers give, Children love me, too. I guess because with them around I become like a child. I play with them, and sing with them.
Ian Brady and Myra HIndly were not just sex offenders, but alo murderers, and they are out. I read a book about them, and the author did try to make out that Myra was under the "influence". OK, if this is the case, then we are failing to instil values in our young. We should be concentrating on that.
My brother-in-law retired from the Judicial Service. He was a Clerk of the Court, and often took cases in the absence of the Judges. In one case of child custody, teh mother had run off with a bf, and the father wanted the child. The mother just came with here bf, asked who would be looking into the case, thrust her child in the arms of my BiL, and said: "Here you can have him. I want nothing to do with him", and then marched off with her bf.
My BiL was flabbergasted.