Sex addiction in a parent means there is family dysfunction and sexual dysfunction in the environment of the child. This in turn impacts families and places children at risk for many problems including sex addiction as adults.
Researchers have reported that:
“Even when the children are not fully aware of the parent’s abnormal sexual behavior, they may eventually replicate it themselves.”
Sex addiction in a family does not automatically mean that the children will grow up to be addicts but it does increase the possibility of the child experiencing abuse or trauma in a number of ways.
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@Amberm — Can I ask you a question I’ve never been able to get a sex addiction specialist to answer? That is, what percentage of the people who your company assesses do you determine NOT to be sex addicts, but whose sexual functioning is by your determination within normal bounds, or whose sexual compulsivity is attributable to other psychological or situational causes?
Thanks in advance for answering!