I've just had an advertising letter through my door from the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children).

The main bulk of the letter contains two examples of girls being abused by a man - one being abused by her mother's boyfriend, the other being abused by her single father.

Then there's an additional leaflet that came in the same envelope:

"He's banging on the door"

"He's going to do it again"

"Will you help me tell him to stop?"

"My Dad won't stop hurting me"

"Will you tell him to stop?"

Those are the main highlighted quotes within said leaflet.

Now, I'm all for protecting children of course, and am in no denial than some men abuse children, but why are ALL the examples referred to showing men as the perpetrators? In the UK at least, studies/statistics have shown that women commit more child abuse than men, so why are there no examples showing this?

I've just done some quick research on this issue and found a lot of people saying "Well more women look after children than men, so of course the figures are going to be higher". Erm, well isn't that more of a reason to include women as possible perpetrators then, rather than purely demonising men?

I can't fathom why - if women abuse more/more often than men - this particular aspect of the problem is completely ignored. Why are we so averse to painting women in a negative light when it comes to crime? Lighter sentences, being let off the hook altogether, and ignoring them as a problem - I seem to be seing it more and more (or perhaps I'm just more aware of it).

It seems to be that men and women commit crimes, abuse children, are paedophiles, etc, but we only ever highlight the men.