I've never read any of Dr. David Ley's research, but I'll keep it on my radar to do so. I'm not saying that school violence is the one-size-fits-all cause of female teachers having affairs with their male students in middle schools and high schools. However, when you take into account how much more violent public schools have become and how much more negligent the security in these places have become throughout the years, it still strikes me as a very strong possibility, especially in the inner city of each urban area.

I can appreciate the probable fact that French President Emmanuel Macron and his current wife, French First Lady Brigitte Marie-Claude Trogneux Macron, did not fall in love with each other at the outset of their relationship because of school violence. I haven't heard of France having any problem with school violence in their public school institutions. When they first fell in love with each other, President Macron was 14 years old and First Lady Brigitte Macron was 38 years old. Of course, then again, France is a little more open-minded about those things than Americans are.

I'm perfectly aware that different situations can arise that drive a female teacher and a male teenage student into each other's arms, including the ones that you mentioned. However, as a society, we Americans should not overlook the possibility that beefing up security to protect female teachers from rape and other forms of violence in learning institutions throughout the United States might cause the number of female-teacher/male-teenage-student affairs to plummet in our nation. Even if that number doesn't plummet as a result, at least there will be fewer female teachers being brutally raped, assaulted, and even murdered at the hands of students.