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I think it is a mistake to characterize the cycle of abuse as being one confined to or simply growing ever greater (awry) in the 20th Century onward and solely in males. I think it is safe to say that such aberrant behaviour has been common throughout history, with many factors - culture, population density, poverty, drugs (including and maybe even especially alcohol) and apparently in some civilizations, technology and it's pollutants, such as lead pipes and lead drinking vessels for water and wine in ancient Rome - acting as contributing causes.

I am reminded that this "cancer" is also often self-replicating in that the abused often become abusers, so one drunken, screwed up mother or father can in turn screw up several children who can then begin a logarithmic progression when they have children. How a society deals with such issues effects all including public knowledge they even exist. Also, as in the so-called Satanic Cult issues, which seem entirely a fabrication, the waters get muddied and diverted from the real causes which is counter-productive.

Hopefully a visit to the museum and viewing inventions of Medieval times for inhumanity to Man may be a positive reality check that we, and especially considering such a huge increase in population, are actually slowly progressing away from such barbarism.