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please note : I do not agree with Gardner
Selected Quotes from Richard A. Gardner, M.D.
"At the present time, the sexually abused child is generally considered to
be the victim," though the child may initiate sexual encounters by
'seducing' the adult."
Gardner, Richard A., _Child Custody Litigation_ (1986), p.93
Sexualizing children can have procreative purposes, because a sexualizedchild is more likely to reproduce at an earlier age. "The younger the
survival machine at the time sexual urges appear, the longer will be the
span of procreative capacity, and the greater the likelihood the
individual will create more survival machines in the next generation."
Gardner, Richard A., _True and False Accusations of Child Sex
Abuse_ (1992), pp.24-25
"It is of interest that of all the ancient peoples it may very well be
that the Jews were the only ones who were punitive toward pedophiles."
Ibid. pp.46-47
Many child advocates are "charlatans, and/or psychopaths, and/or
incompetents."
Ibid. p.526
"It is _extremely_ important for therapists to appreciate that the child
who has been genuinely abused may _not_ need psychotherapeutic
intervention."
Ibid. p.535
"There is a whole continuum that must be considered here, from those
children who were coerced and who gained no pleasure (and might even be
considered to have been raped) to those who enjoyed immensely (with
orgastic responses) the sexual activities."
Ibid. p.548
"Older children may be helped to appreciate that sexual encounters between
an adult and a child are not universally considered to be reprehensible
act. The child might be told about other societies in which such behavior
was and is considered normal. The child might be helped to appreciate the
wisdom of Shakespeare's Hamlet, who said, 'Nothing's either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.' In such discussions the child has to be helped
to appreciate that we have in our society an exaggeratedly punitive and
moralistic attitude about adult-child sexual encounters."
Ibid. p.549
"If the mother has reacted to the abuse in a hysterical fashion, or usedit as an excuse for a campaign of denigration of the father, then the
therapist does well to try and 'sober her up'... Her hysterics... will
contribute to the child's feeling that a heinous crime has been committed
and will thereby lessen the likelihood of any kind of rapproachment with
the father. One has to do everything possible to help her put the 'crime'
in proper perspective. She has to be helped to appreciate that in most
societies in the history of the world, such behavior was ubiquitous, and
this is still the case."
Ibid. p.584-585
"Mothers who have been sexually abused as children may have residual anger
toward her molesting father or other sexual molester, and this may be
interfering with her relationship with her husband. This should be
explored in depth, and she should be helped to reduce such residual
anger... Perhaps she can be helped to appreciate that in the history of
the world his behavior has probably been more common than the restrained
behavior of those who do not sexually abuse their children."
Ibid. p.585
"It is likely that the mother has sexual problems... In many cases she
herself was sexually molested as a child... She may never have achieved an
orgasm -- in spite of the fact that she was sexually molested, in spite of
the fact that she had many lovers, and in spite of the fact that she is
now married. The therapist, then, does well to try to help her achieve
such gratification. Verbal statements about the pleasures of orgastic
response are not likely to prove very useful. One has to encourage
experiences, under proper situations of relaxation, which will enable her
to achieve the goal of orgastic response... Vibrators can be extremely
useful in this regard, and one must try to overcome any inhibition she may
have with regard to their use... her own diminished guilt over
masturbation will make it easier for her to encourage the practice in her
daughter, if this is warranted. And her increased sexuality may lessen
the need for her husband to return to their daughter for sexual
gratification."
Ibid. pp.584-585
"If he [the molesting father] doesn't know this already, he has to be
helped to appreciate that pedophilia has been considered the norm by the
vast majority of individuals in the history of the world. He has to be
helped to appreciate that, even today, it is a widespread and acceptedpractice among literally billions of people. He has to appreciate that in
our Western society especially, we take a very punitive and moralistic
attitude toward such inclinations... He has had a certain amount of back
[sic] luck with regard to the place and time he was born with regard to
social attitudes toward pedophilia. However, these are not reasons to
condemn himself."
Ibid. pp.593
"Of relevance here is the belief by many of these therapists that a sexual
encounter between an adult and a child -- no matter how short, no matter
how tender, loving, and non-painful -- automatically and predictably
_must_ be psychologically traumatic to the child... The determinant as to
whether the experience will be traumatic is the social attitude toward
these encounters."
Ibid. pp.670-71
"I believe it is reasonable to say that at this time there are millions of
people in the United States who are either directly accusing or supporting
false sex-abuse accusations and/or are reacting in an extremely
exaggerated fashion to situations in which _bona fide_ sex abuse has
occurred."
Ibid. p.688
Mandated reporting of child abuse has resulted in the "reporting of the
most frivolous and absurd accusations by two- and three-year-olds,
vengeful former wives, hysterical mothers of nursery school children, and
severely disturbed women against their elderly fathers."
Gardner, Richard A., _Issues in Child Abuse Accusations_, 5(1),
p.26
"We need well-publicized civil lawsuits against incompetent and/or
overzealous psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, child protection
workers, 'child advocates,' police, and detectives whose ineptitude has
promulgated a false accusation."
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