Balto wrote:

"Sometimes (I would argue much more often than the scenario you posit) it's because the kid stops being attracted / attached to the pedo, rather than the other way around."

You cannot know this. There are no studies...of course.. that would suggest/prove this. We only know what pedophiles say, using vague terms and words like 'usually', "much more often" "most"... and so on, and their opinions are completely based on their own self-interest.

But what about the children/tweens/teens who are not even included in these best-case scenarios?

Are they worthless?

Are they and their fledgling feelings to be ignored?

How can this be?

Are you saying that such a thing....children devastated by the end of LOVE....never happens? Cannot happen?