Incest Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Between children=== Childhood [[Sibling incest|sibling–sibling incest]] is considered to be widespread but rarely reported.<ref name=Turner /> Sibling–sibling incest becomes [[child-on-child sexual abuse]] when it occurs without consent, without equality, or as a result of [[coercion]]. In this form, it is believed to be the most common form of intrafamilial abuse.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kalogerakis |first=Michael G. |author2=American Psychiatric Association. Workgroup on Psychiatric Practice in the Juvenile Court |title=Handbook of psychiatric practice in the juvenile court: the Workgroup on Psychiatric Practice in the Juvenile Court of the American Psychiatric Association |year=1992 |publisher=American Psychiatric Pub |isbn=978-0-89042-233-5 |page=106 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nsUloUgZwRoC&pg=PA106 }}</ref> The most commonly reported form of abusive sibling incest is abuse of a younger sibling by an older sibling.<ref name=Turner /> A 2006 study showed a large portion of adults who experienced sibling incest abuse have "distorted" or "disturbed" beliefs (such as that the act was "normal") both about their own experience and the subject of sexual abuse in general.<ref name="Carlson">{{cite journal |last1=Carlson |first1=Bonnie E. |year=2006 |pmid=17200052 |title=Sibling Incest: Reports from Forty-One Survivors |journal=Journal of Child Sexual Abuse |volume=15 |issue=4 |pages=19–34 |doi=10.1300/J070v15n04_02 |last2=MacIol |first2=K |last3=Schneider |first3=J|s2cid=20799279 }}</ref> [[Sibling abuse#Sexual abuse|Sibling abusive incest]] is most prevalent in families where one or both parents are often absent or emotionally unavailable, with the abusive siblings using incest as a way to assert their power over a weaker sibling.<ref name=leder>{{cite news|last=Leder |first=Jane Mersky |title=Adult Sibling Rivalry: Sibling rivalry often lingers through adulthood |url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/199301/adult-sibling-rivalry |work=Psychology Today |volume=January/February 93 |publisher=Sussex Publishers }}</ref> Absence of the father in particular has been found to be a significant element of most cases of sexual abuse of female children by a brother.<ref name=rudd>{{cite journal |last1=Rudd |first1=Jane M. |last2=Herzberger |first2=Sharon D. |title=Brother-sister incest—father-daughter incest: a comparison of characteristics and consequences |journal=Child Abuse & Neglect |volume=23 |issue=9 |date=September 1999 |pages=915–928 |doi=10.1016/S0145-2134(99)00058-7 |pmid=10505905}}</ref> The damaging effects on both childhood development and adult symptoms resulting from brother–sister sexual abuse are similar to the effects of father–daughter, including substance abuse, depression, suicidality, and eating disorders.<ref name=rudd /><ref name=cyr>{{cite journal |last1=Cyr |first1=Mireille |last2=Wrighta |first2=S John |last3=McDuffa |first3=Pierre |last4=Perron |first4=Alain |title=Intrafamilial sexual abuse: brother–sister incest does not differ from father–daughter and stepfather–stepdaughter incest |journal=Child Abuse & Neglect |volume=26 |issue=9 |date=September 2002 |pages=957–973 |doi=10.1016/S0145-2134(02)00365-4 |pmid=12433139}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page