ABSTRACT
Sibling incest is the least investigated but probably the most common form of incest. This study describes a predominantly Caucasian, middle-income sample of sibling incest offenders from primarily intact families. Demographics, behavioral dysfunction, psychiatric diagnoses, history of victimization, family characteristics, and abuse characteristics are presented. Findings included that 92% of the offenders had a history of being physically abused, whereas only 8% had a history of sexual victimization. Issues of parental denial and minimization and intergenerational transmission of abusive patterns are discussed. Sibling incest demands further attention from clinicians and researchers.
Subject(s)
Child Abuse, Sexual/psychology , Family/psychology , Incest/psychology , Sibling Relations , Adolescent , Child , Child Abuse/psychology , Child Behavior Disorders/diagnosis , Child Behavior Disorders/psychology , Child of Impaired Parents/psychology , Child, Preschool , Denial, Psychological , Domestic Violence/psychology , Female , Humans , Learning Disabilities/diagnosis , Learning Disabilities/psychology , Male , Mental Disorders/diagnosis , Mental Disorders/psychology , Parenting/psychology , Risk FactorsABSTRACT
Structured interviews were administered to 22 children, ranging in age from 6 to 10 years old, who did not disclose long-term sexual abuse by an auxiliary school employee, despite having been exposed to a school-based child sexual abuse prevention program. The results are presented in the context of a review of existing literature on school-based child sexual abuse prevention programs. Results point to the ineffectiveness of brief, single presentation, prevention efforts not geared to specific developmental levels of the audience, the need to explore the impact of the variable of group versus individual victimization on disclosure, and the need for further study of sexually victimized children who received prevention programming with the addition of a control group sample.
