Reply To: Amudim: Abuse often occurs within your home .

I googled a bit and found as a top hit an article in Amer. J. Pysch. from the early 1990s that surveyed abusers and found that 35% of male abusers were themselves abused; there was no correlation for female abusers. I think abuse included all kinds of abuse. They did not address in this study what % of victims become abusers.
Reading a bit more, I found that one factor that contributed to a victim becoming an abuser was that they believed that what they experienced was not bad- i.e. that they deserved the abuse, that other adults supported the abuser.
I think this is the critical point-as TLIK stated, victims are not doomed to repeat the cycle. But if we want victims to heal and become productive, healthy members of society, then we must acknowledge the abuse, oust the abusers, deal with problems and not hide them under the rug as was done in previous times, and of course, doing so prevents the abuse from continuing and the abuser from gathering more victims.