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You might find this interesting:

"This opens the possibly that pedophilia is linked (in addition to or instead of an aberrant sexual system) to an over-active nurturing system.

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It might be hypothesized that, in contrast to ancient maternal infant stimulus processing, human male brains process infant stimuli with brain areas that might not be associated primarily with caregiving. If so, it is conceivable that the involvement of brain areas not “geared” to the paternal nurturing aspects associated with infant stimuli makes male brains vulnerable to not maintaining the functional division between the domains of nurturing and mating behavior."

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5778266/

If it's right and you're right, one of possible causes of pedophilia is parental impulses acting wrong.