I do not think that this was exactly what the feminists had in mind.
Law of unintended consequences, I suppose.
From a Yahoo! USA Today article, More women charged in sex cases :
More women charged in sex cases By Wendy Koch, USA TODAY [/] Wed Nov 30, 7:03 AM ETIn courtrooms nationwide this month, at least seven women - four of them teachers - have been charged or sentenced for having sex with boys, mostly teenagers. One of the women is pregnant. [/] Tuesday in Georgia, Lisa Lynette Clark, 37, was indicted in the molestation of her son's 15-year-old friend, who she says is the father of the baby she's expecting. She was arrested one day after marrying the boy.
No definitive data exists on whether more females are sexually abusing children. Yet the number arrested for sex crimes has risen in five of the past six years as more people consider molestation of boys as heinous as that of girls.
"There's been a decline in the double standard. That's why you're seeing more of these cases," says David Finkelhor, director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. As more women enter law enforcement, he says the old attitude that boys are willing, even lucky, participants has changed.
Richard Gartner, a New York psychologist and author of Betrayed as Boys, says scandals involving Catholic priests and the case of Mary Kay Letourneau helped focus attention on boys as sexual victims. Letourneau, a former Washington teacher, had two children in the late 1990s with a former student, whom she married this year.
[…] "It's hard for boys to think of themselves as victims," says Gartner. He says adult sexual advances are confusing to boys, who are easily aroused physically but may be uncomfortable emotionally. He says boys are led to believe they should take sex whenever offered and if they don't, something may be wrong with them. "It is a trauma for many boys," he says, adding they may - as adults - realize they lost some of their childhood.
Experts, including Finkelhor, don't know how often women molest kids, because most offenses are never reported. They say boys, the target of most female offenders, are less likely than girls to report them. Yet females account for a rising share of arrests for all sex crimes since 1995, according to FBI data.
Females account for 4% of those sexually abusing children under 18, a July 2000 Justice Department report found. The report says they account for 12% of those molesting kids younger than 6.
In the past 18 months, at least 25 cases nationwide involved female teachers molesting students, says Robert Shoop, a professor at Kansas State University and author of Sexual Exploitation in Schools: How to Spot It and Stop It.
In a U.S. Department of Education report released in June 2004, at least 20% of students reported sexual misconduct - whether verbal or physical - by a female teacher or aide.
[…]While more women are getting attention for molesting children, their jail terms often are less than what men receive. Last week in Tampa, Lafave, 25, avoided jail time for molesting a 14-year-old student. She got three years of house arrest and seven years of probation.
With jail time, says Gartner, "we definitely still have a double standard." [My ellipses and emphasis]
I wonder if, actually, It Is All Bush's Fault.
