Why are so many teachers having affairs with underage students?

I have come to notice teacher/student relationships are becoming quite the trend on the news lately especially between a woman teacher and a boy student and it seems like every time I look at Google News or Yahoo News there seems to be another one. The most recent was a teacher in New Zealand that had been having a relationship with a sixteen year old boy for over three years and even though she lost her job, her husband and her kids and is going to spend the next few years of her life behind bars what creeps me out is how intent this woman was with continuing the relationship with the boy and she actually said she loved him and they were going to get married when he turned eighteen.

Teacher/Student relationships are nothing new and most likely go back further than most of us think but in the last decade there appears to be an increase in them and I personally feel there is no form of paedophilia as bad as a teacher taking advantage of an young boy or girl and as a parent it makes me sick because teachers are supposed to be people that are in a position of trust and parents who send their kids to school trust a teacher to look after them and not rape them. I feel the schools are partly responsible for these relationships happening because with the history of Teachers having these sick types of relationships with students they should know it isn’t that uncommon and perhaps having video cameras in every classroom that is frequently monitored would stop or pick up on them before they even begin.

My question is what makes these teachers attracted to young children? Many of them that make the news headlines are already in relationships and marriages with people who appear to be completely oblivious to their partner’s attraction to children and some of them even have children the same age as their victims which is even more disturbing. Looking at it from a child’s perspective it makes sense and with the exception of my best friend/first girlfriend I was always more attracted to older women like my Sister’s best friends and I think it is only natural for children to be attracted to older men and women because it is just a crush and nothing more but when it is the opposite it is sick, sadistic and really ****ed up.