  :First of all I think you are confusing pedophiles with child molesters. We know that there are some child molesters who aren't pedophiles but we can only assume that there are some pedophiles who aren't child molesters. Because a pedophile who's never molested would never come out and tell people he's a pedophile (except in rare cases like Lindsay Ashford) there's no way to know how many of them are out there. Also, in this question: ::Lets take girls, for instance, under the age of 18. If 1 out of 4 or 5 girls are being molested, and if about half of the molesters are older than 18, isn't 1 in every 10 adults (mostly males), a child molester? :I think you are assuming that the total number of people under 18 are equal to the total number of people over 18. There are many more adults in the world than there are children. So the number of child molesters would be much less 1 in every 10. That's also assuming that only half of all child molesters are over 18 which is probably not true either.