Word: incest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With a movie about incest, TV again explores the forbidden
Social issues including incest, child abuse and the trauma of Vietnam veterans have been central themes on Nixon's shows. She said that with sensitive scripts her shows perform a "tasteful public service...
DEEP IN THE BOWELS of Lowell House, in a cramped room riddled with steam pipes and sighing ventilator shafts. David Win-grove has revived Michel Tremblay's Bonjour, La. Bonjour. Tremblay's play about incest and despair in a Montreal family enjoyed critical success in Canada, made a small splash in New York--and should probably have been allowed to lade into memory thereafter. Though a spirited Lowell House Drama Society production captures enough of Tremblay's lacerating wit to keep the pot boiling for two hours, the script clamps a cover on the actors, and the play never takes...
...hillbilly communities. They contend that it is just as prevalant in urban areas and among middle-and upper-class families. Nor are victims only girls. Homosexual abuse of boys by adult males in the home is more common than generally realized, they say, although no reliable statistics are available. Incest between mothers and sons is hardly ever reported...
Chronic offenders or potential abusers can work to control their impulses through the peer support of groups like Parents Anonymous, patterned after Alcoholics Anonymous. Indeed, some experts say that incest, like alcohol and drugs, is mood altering, since it can provide a momentary escape from feelings of loneliness or inadequacy. "Sexual offenders and chemical dependents have the same thinking patterns," says Richard Seely, director of the Intensive Treatment Program for Sexual Aggressives at the Minnesota Security Hospital in St. Peter. "They get highs each step...