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Families for Freedom, Stranger Danger.
Families for Freedom warn against too much anxiety for strangers. 

Father's horror in child sex scandal; 20th February 2007 
A father has spoken for the first time of the horror of having his three daughters and two foster children removed when they were wrongly diagnosed as sex abuse victims. 
It is the 20th anniversary of what became known as the Cleveland Child Sex Abuse Scandal - but many of those innocently accused still live with the pain of having their families torn apart.

Fog, A., Paraphilias and Therapy, in Nordisk Sexulologi, 1992.
Let me introduce a new model which describes the situation of a person whose sexual peculiarities are suppressed by the surrounding society. This model I call the isolated minority syndrome.

Foggo, Daniel, Police chief sparks row over stigma of sex with children; Sunday Times, 19 November 2006 - Leading Article: Drawing the Age Line 
THE police’s leading child protection officer has said that men who have sex with children should not be classed as “paedophiles” if the victim is between the ages of 13 and 15 years old. [...] Only those who targeted prepubescent children deserved to be labeled and treated as “paedophiles”.
He added that the term “child pornography” should apply only to images of children aged below 13, for the same reason.

Fox, James Alan, Signs of paranoia over pedophilia; MetroWest Daily News, March 5, 2006 
The perception that sex offenders are untreatable is based more on fear than fact. Sex offenders, even pedophiles, actually have a lower rate of recidivism than most other felons, according to a U.S. Department of Justice study of thousands of released convicts. Cured or not, many sex offenders are able to control their impulses. So vigilance and public notification are fine, but excessively stigmatizing sexual predators does no one any good. 

Franklin, Karen, Sex offender industry sees invasion of "hebephile" hunters; American Chronicle, December 12, 2007 
Hirschfeld would roll over in his grave to see how his term is being used today - in the service of involuntarily committing people to state psychiatric hospitals. [...] This is but one of several efforts by Doren to broaden the diagnostic categories under which sex offenders can be civilly detained. [...] 
The absurdity of describing erotic attraction to adolescents as a mental abnormality is that most normal heterosexual men are sexually attracted to teenage girls [...] Given the scientifically unsupported nature of this emerging diagnosis, clinicians are likely to apply it arbitrarily, and especially to men who are sexually involved with male teenagers. 

Fraser, Doug, About a boy; in: Student Magazine of the Otago University in Dunedin, New Zealand, December 2004  
Paedophilia. The very word can evoke feelings of disgust and outrage. It ruins young lives, experts claim; older men who have relationships with boys are scumbags, they say. Indeed, a large number of such individuals are undeniably scumbags. However, there is an emerging argument that not all man-boy relationships are bad. Actually, claim some advocates, “boylove” can be highly beneficial to all involved.  

Frederiksen, A., Pedophilia, Science, and Self-deception, A Criticism of Sex Abuse Research, 1999

Freely, Maureen, & Bright, Martin, Stop being paranoid, Britain's parents told; Controversial book says obsessive fears about children's safety are a bigger threat than bullies or paedophiles; in The Observer, Marrch 11, 2001 
A controversial new book on child-rearing to be published this week will urge parents to let their children take more risks and stop panicking about playground bullies and paedophiles. The book's author, Frank Furedi, Reader in Sociology at the University of Kent, argues that parents' obsession with the safety of their children is more damaging than the risks themselves.
Paranoid Parenting: Abandon Your Anxieties And Be A Good Parent says parents should be wary of traditional 'child-centred' experts and urges the Government not to meddle in the family and parenting.

Furedi, Frank, Paranoid Parenting, published in March, 2001 by Allen Lane, Introduction.
Tony is giving up teaching. Although he would not use the words, it was 'parental paranoia' that drove him out of the West Sussex primary school where he had taught for three years. During his teacher training, Tony had anticipated that he might be stretched by the challenge of dealing with rowdy children. But he was not prepared for the task of coping with 'difficult' anxious parents. The most taxing moments of his working life were to be spent dealing with 'worried mums'. He sighs as he tells of the mother who insisted on driving behind her son's coach to France to ensure that he arrived safely. He wearily recalls how a school trip to the seaside, planned for a class of 5-year-olds was cancelled because two parents were concerned that the trip would involve their children in a 45-minute journey in a private car. Would the cars be roadworthy? Who would accompany a child to the lavatory? Who would ensure correct fitting seat belts? Were these normally non-smoking cars, or would the children be made victims of passive smoking? 

Furedi, F., Robbing kids of their childhood and teaching parents to panic; Let children be children and adults be adults, Living Marxism, issue 113, September 1998

Furedi, F., Watch out, adults about, August 1999
Our obsession with child abusers risks destroying the traditional trust between generations.

Furedi, Frank, History-as-Therapy; In an era when suffering is celebrated and we all must ‘Believe the Victim’, is it any wonder people make up wild stories about wolves and Nazis?  Spiked Online, 5 March 2008 
[...] In the current cultural climate, it is inevitable that abuse memoirs have a tendency to stretch the boundary between fact and fiction. Readers and critics usually feel awkward and inhibited about questioning the veracity of such memoirs.  Scepticism is discouraged in an era built upon the therapeutic ethos ‘Believe the child’, ‘Believe the patient’, ‘Believe the abused’ – today, such invocations are used to sacralise the claims of victims. [...]
Through the therapeutic manipulation of memory, the trauma is lived and relived, guaranteeing the individual the status of a morally interesting victim-for-life.

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