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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I tried everything I could -no video games, no violent movies or tv, no toy guns or swords or any violent type play at all. Encouraged empathy and peaceful problem solving and anger management (I’m a behavioral scientist). 
Society influences won and he is violent and has assaulted women. 
However, if I hadn’t raised him as I did, I know he’d be 100 x worse. 
I’ve long admired how boys are raised in other cultures, I think our culture in the USA is dangerous. 
We excuse and allow bad behavior and mistreatment of women. 
This is not keeping boys safe, this is pushing them to be violent. [/quote]
I want to thank you for posting. You are getting some nasty comments, but there are SO MANY men who assault women. Probably quite a few of the posters on this thread. They don't want to admit it, or want to blame the woman, but it comes down to the men. They can be raised by great parents, and still end up raping or assaulting someone. It serves no one to brush it under the rug. I'm sorry your son is a predator, it cant be easy to live with that. [/quote]

Disagree with premise. There are not “SO MANY” men who assault women. [/quote]
There are far more men who assault women (and men) than there are women. 80% of violent crimes are committed by men. For sexual crimes? 94%.  I'm not sure what you are disagreeing with.[/quote]

They are the same pool of men over and over. The pool is relatively small but active. Most men don’t engage is violent activities.[/quote]
Unfortunately the pool isn't that small. I do agree that [i]most[/i] men don't. But [i]many[/i] men do. And that is too many. [/quote]

If most men don’t, and a large subset of those who do either are mentally ill, have substance abuse problems, or history of abuse themselves, what the heck are we talking about here?[/quote]

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