Pedophilia has been defined by the American Psychiatric Association as a MENTAL DISORDER, not a choice. Research on the disorder is fragmented due to a lack of funding. Why is this so? Research scientists who do work in the field, are viewed as supporters of the pedophile, even though they seek to find a common link, a control, and finally a cure. There have been genetic, heredity, and brain chemical findings, leading to a belief that pedophilia has many muliple components...but then the funds dry up.
As a parent, this enrages me. As a member of society, it embarasses me. Do we now say that all scientists doing cancer research are in support of cancer, and cut the funding, also? Same with HIV, full blown AIDS, do those doing research to cure it actually support it...maybe....maybe it is all a big plot to kill us all, and we need to go back to the dark ages of medicine, so that these disease friendly researchers can't get us. Maybe we'd be better off having left depression, OCD. ADD,schizophenia, bi-polar disorder....any other mental disorder...alone. It really wasn't that bad, was it?
There are no IFS here, pedophilia has been defined by the professionals as a mental disorder. It disgusts us...too damn bad...it is a prejudice of one genre of mental illness. To deny the adequate reaearch to better understand it, is to be as slavery was to Blacks, as Hitler was to Jews. I have been doing extensive research on my own, into scientific findings about pedophilia. It is out there, and there are FACTS not to be disputed, and theories that have come to be from certain commonalities, yet from different research centers...quite respectable and well known facilities. Then, the funds dry up. SSRI drugs were showing to produce positive results. Differences in the behaviors of the disorder were dispelling beliefs held in the era of ignorance. Then the funds dry up.
IF, the operative word, we as a people, really care about the effects of this behavior, why do we let the funds dry up? Pedophile supporters my backside! If you are breaking your neck to find a path to an end, you are the greatest advocate for children...one to be commended, not silenced. So, maybe we really don't care all that much...it's so much better to want them in jail...even when logic sreams that must be at the expense of a victim. Do we care about the CHILDREN, or is it our own disgust, repulsion and thirst for blood, that supercedes the innocent being victimized to satisfy our personal feelings? To convict, there must be a crime. Every crime must have a victim. I have personally seen too much published, seen so many similarities to these findings that paralell my childrens' offender, I can't look away...I want them to go on, as I feel they are on to something. I'm sick of reading that the funds dried up, as my children were the victims of an under-researched mental illness, and did not have to be. For those who suffered in the dark ages, in the era of "sweeping this under the rug", the era of negative absolutes and sterotyping...my God, I am sorry. But it is not a tribute to them to remain in prejudice, stagnation and a lack of hope...because the funds keep drying up on "pedophile supporters"...who seek a way to stop it.
The true pedophile supporters are those who are in support of the status quo of yesteryear remaining as it was, not what it could be.
Look at your new born baby....would YOU, as a parent, accept a stigma, resulting in lack of medical research if your child had the misfortune to be born with a mental defect he/she did not ask for, nor did you? Would you want not one stone to be left unturned to help YOUR child? Would you accept the funds dried up as an answer, as you watch the progress of other mental disorders...just not for your child? It infuriates me ,and I have to thank the show for causing me to go deeper, look further, put my own pain on hold, while I learned what should be today, common knowledge. Thank you, to the silent ones, to the grants withheld, thank you all on behalf of the victims on this forum, on behalf of my children. Your silence may have enabled some of us to suffer unnecessarily. The information with held may have been the clue to prevention, so again, thank you all for your silence. I'm pleased that I found as much as I did, and hope it can be taken further. I know this is not as important for media attention,as lets say, Paris Hilton, Brittany Spears, or Tom Cruise. Our values are as sick as the mind of a pedophile...perhaps more so, as we allegedly, are not suffering from a mental disorder...just a serious moral decline when with holding pertinent findings, and dried up funds have become O.K.. What the hell, they're just kids, and we, as laymen know it all about pedophiles. so why listen to experts in the field. We have it all under control, now, don't we?
T
(Original Air Date: 04/16/07) Dr. Phil continues his work with a family torn apart by a 6-year-old girl’s secret: she was molested by her grandfather, and her grandmother failed to report it. Cat and Todd have cut off all contact with Todd’s parents, Steve and Anne, and haven’t seen them since they learned the horrifying truth from their daughter, Grace, over two years ago. Steve has served time for the assault and is now a registered sex offender with a protective order keeping him away from Grace until she’s 18. After secretly watching Dr. Phil’s interview with Steve and Anne, and learning the details of what really took place, will Todd and Cat ever feel comfortable with letting Grace’s grandmother back in her life? Dr. Phil sits down with both couples as they confront each other for the first time face to face. Then, Dr. Phil addresses Cat and Todd’s marriage, which has started to crumble under the stress. How can they get back on track for the sake of their daughter? Next, Grace wants to ask Dr. Phil some questions. See what this brave little girl wants other kids to know. Plus, Dr. Phil has an update on this family one month later. How are they now? Talk about the show here.
