Perhaps I was a bit too extreme in disregarding school violence. I do 100% agree improving school safety is important so this reduces rape, assault, etc.
I simply think the other factors I mentioned are the main causes for why female teacher-male student romances occur.
Perhaps some female teachers sleep with male students and develop relationships with them out of safety, but I highly doubt most are doing it for this reason, as stated by my previous comment/reply. If school violence decreased significantly, I genuinely think we would still see similar levels of female teachers getting caught with male students.
I don't think inner city student-teacher romances has increased significantly compared to prior years. It's simply that they're caught more often now. But, as you pointed out, at least it will significantly reduce violence toward female teachers.
The true reality of female teachers with male students (based on what I've seen/researched, etc) is that they find the students attractive, they feel insecure in their own relationships, they develop feelings for this teen boy because they're around him all day (women are more likely than men to want to get with someone they know well), they have low inhibitions, and they are emotionally immature.
However, I’m open to possibilities, but without concrete evidence it’s all speculation. None of us are currently in school settings, including the researchers, so we can’t assert motives with certainty.
Solid work as usual with your articles. You and I at least don't sweepingly call all teachers predators/pedos for student-teacher romances like many others do.
Flavoslim? I mainly base my contention that school violence feeds the frequency of female teachers having affairs with underage male students on patterns that I have observed after watching a number of different news clips. I admit that I didn't rely on any research in this regard. However, I do believe that researchers should check into these patterns and verify if they are connected with one another, because, if so, it would shed a lot of light on this topic.
What I find so interesting is how diametrically different the American culture is from the French culture in dealing with these kinds of situations. I mean, French President Emmanuel Macron had a relationship of this nature in his past in which he was the underage student and his current wife, French First Lady Brigitte Marie-Claude Trogneux Macron, was his teacher, yet he still got elected president of France.
I have to wonder that if Vili Fualaau were to run for president in two years when he is 35 years old, would the American Court of Public Opinion hold his past with the late Mary Kay Letourneau against him. It would seem unfair, because, after all, all these social-justice warriors that were dead set on locking up the late Mary Kay Letourneau and throwing away the key were insistent that he was a victim. In any event, what stands out very conspicuously is that the French culture doesn't appear to stigmatize these situations to the degree that the American culture does.