Sex offenders. no one likes them, and many people carry a kind of hatred for them that is more emotional than for any other kind of criminal, and for good reason. Horrible things done to the most vulnerable people: children. But what if our emotional anger towards sex offenders is actually making our societies less safe for children? We spend more on trying to keep convicted sex offenders away from children (and failing despite how much we spend) than we do on working towards safer families. Because the overwhelming majority of the time, child molestation happens in the family.