In single-parent families, they are also more likely to be around unrelated men (like their mothers' boyfriends), increasing the pool of potential abusers.

This preventive measure helped significantly to identify potential abusers and children at risk.

"What would the social cost be if you were identified as a potential alcoholic or drug abuser in childhood?"

Dr. Finkelhor argued that one benefit of the programs may be not so much in their impact on the children, but the effect on potential abusers.

And seminarians will be interviewed at graduation to screen against potential abusers becoming priests.

The Heralds themselves were nearly incapable of becoming corrupted or potential abusers of their temporal power.

Which, according to critics, is just what happened, giving potential abusers a road map for how to avoid prosecution.

But Hawaii state officials said that care is taken to avoid labeling families as potential abusers and to offer help without threats.

In other words, it would be impossible to identify from which side would potential racist abusers come.

Social workers often resent the intrusion of the police and prosecutors, whom they see as a threat to their efforts to hold families together and counsel potential abusers.