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I think the situation can of course vary. Experts say that kids who have been abused sexually have the potential to act out sexually on themselves or others. This is sometimes thought of reliving the act of abuse itself. To some kids it's a distorted way of expressing love. Someone has told them if you love them you will do this with me (in some cases).
In the case of a foster child in my opinion, in many cases sexual abuse was not the only hell they lived through. Loving safe homes cannot always protect a child from a neighbor or another relative abusing a child. In the case of kids in the system a safe home wasn't there to fall back on and the abuse could have been from a variety of sources. Our former fd was allegedly traded for drugs and even abused allegedly by bio mom.
Try to put the foster spin on it. I had some personal and professional experience with this type of abuse. I think it's safe to say some kids act out while others never would. The thing is you can't always tell which is which. So it's never safe not to assume there is not a POTENTIAL.
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