Word: incest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cardinals sin, but lower prelates, priests and parishioners are awash in anger and avarice, deceit and envy, pride and lust-especially lust. Greeley pleads that his novels are not so much about sex as about love-God's love for sinful humans. Like biblical stories of adultery and incest, he argues, they demonstrate how God "draws straight with crooked lines." Greeley's attackers charge that those crooked lines are drawn all too luridly and are being accepted by non-Catholics, at least, as an insider's scandalous portrait of what the church is really like...
...similar attitude in a more bizarre form came from sociologist Warren Farell in 1976 "Homosexuality, wife swapping, open marriage, bisexuality, S & M. and kiddie porn have already had their seasons...After centuries of restraint, incest is finally...
FATHER DAUGHTER INCEST documents the impact of incest on the female victims Excerpts from the conversations of 40 women who talked with Dr. Herman and her associates piece together the shared experience of brutality. Ten percent of the women had father who began imposing sexual demands before the girls were five years old. The legacy of their abuse--inevitably remaining with them for life, includes suicidal tendencies, depression promiscuity, alcohol and drug abuse, the utter debasement of self-image, and a host of other pathologies...
Herman suggests changing the way incest is perceived as the first step towards making many needed reforms. Incest laws should alter the rules of procedure, she says, since eyewitness are obviously rare. Abused children usually remain under their father's roof (and power) while the father is being tried. Mothers and daughters, estranged in incestuous families, must be re-united. Therapists must recognize the cultural taboos surrounding incest and develop new methods of treating victims...
...begin dealing with an overlooked tragedy. From 1976 to 1977, the number of cases reported to the National Study of Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting went up 23 percent, from 412.927 to 507.494. Herman proposes that we again educate ourselves and prepare to cope with-the horror of incest. Her book is the first step in the process...