Word: incestousness
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HEALTH Breaking the silence on incest...
Some survivors transform themselves from victims to activists. Until Patti and Kelvin Barton of Everett, Wash., lobbied their state legislature three years ago to enact a new law, it was almost impossible for anyone to bring civil charges of childhood sexual abuse after the victim turned 21. Because many incest survivors, like Patti, do not even realize their childhood experiences until they are well into adulthood, they had few legal options against their abusers. The Washington law now allows people three years to bring suit after the discovery of either the abuse or the injury it caused. A dozen other...
Crucial to recovery is the act of breaking the silence. "It's very important for the survivor to tell at least one other person," says Laura Davis, co-author of The Courage to Heal, the text used most often by incest survivors attempting to recover. "They don't have to tell the whole world if they don't want to." But by speaking out even a little, survivors hope they can break the cycle of shame and prevent the next generation from suffering...
...survivor of incest long past. Somehow it is all too easy to forget those things that traumatized the soul. The phantom woman in the night reminds me. Everything I do in life revolves around working out the problems created by that woman in the night who long ago terrorized an innocent child...
...therapy. At times I have felt enraged that I have to endure such pain. Today I feel only sadness -- and hope. Hope for me, for my children, for the many people engaged in this incredible battle. I promised my children years ago that I would break the cycle of incest that has haunted my family, and now that's happening. I only regret that the resources I've tapped weren't there for my mother, who still says that, whatever happened, it was not sexual abuse...