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Do not fill this in! ==Incest== {{Main|Incest}} Incest between a child or adolescent and a related adult is known as '''child incestuous abuse''',<ref>{{cite web |last=Trusiani|first=Jessica|title=Working with Survivors of Child Incestuous Abuse|website=Rutgers University|url=http://socialwork.rutgers.edu/Libraries/VAWC/Trusiani_presentation.sflb.ashx|access-date=2014-04-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141101063712/http://socialwork.rutgers.edu/Libraries/VAWC/Trusiani_presentation.sflb.ashx|archive-date=2014-11-01}}</ref> and has been identified as the most widespread form of child sexual abuse with a highly significant capacity to damage the young person.<ref name=Courtois /> One researcher stated that more than 70% of abusers are immediate family members or someone very close to the family.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aaets.org/article31.htm |title=Sexual Abuse:Surviving the Pain |author1=Barabara E. Bogorad |others=Sexual Abuse Recovery Program Unit South Oaks Hospital, New York |publisher=The American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, Inc.}}</ref> Another researcher stated that about 30% of all perpetrators of sexual abuse are related to their victim, 60% of the perpetrators are family acquaintances, like a neighbor, babysitter or friend and 10% of the perpetrators in child sexual abuse cases are strangers.<ref name=Whealin/> A child sexual abuse offense where the perpetrator is related to the child, either by blood or marriage, is a form of [[incest]] described as ''intrafamilial child sexual abuse''.<ref>{{Cite journal|doi=10.1177/088740349000400304 |title=Decision-Making Of The District Attorney: Diverting Or Prosecuting Intrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse Offenders |year=1990 |last1=Fridell |first1=L. A. |journal=Criminal Justice Policy Review |volume=4 |pages=249–267|issue=3|s2cid=145654768 }}</ref> The most-often reported form of incest is father–daughter and stepfather–stepdaughter incest, with most of the remaining reports consisting of mother/stepmother–daughter/son incest.<ref name=Turner>{{Cite book |last=Turner |first=Jeffrey S. |title=Encyclopedia of relationships across the lifespan |publisher=Greenwood Press |location=Westport, Conn |year=1996 |page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofre0000turn/page/92 92] |isbn=978-0-313-29576-8 |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofre0000turn/page/92 }}</ref> Father–son incest is reported less often; however, it is not known if the actual prevalence is less or it is under-reported by a greater margin.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://williamapercy.com/wiki/images/Father-son_incest_a_review.pdf|title=Williamapercy.com|website=williamapercy.com|access-date=2014-05-10|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304071829/http://williamapercy.com/wiki/images/Father-son_incest_a_review.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |hdl = 1811/51174|title = Father-Son Incest: Underreported Psychiatric Problem?|url = https://archive.org/details/sim_american-journal-of-psychiatry_1978-07_135_7/page/835|year = 1978|last1 = Calestro|first1 = Kenneth|last2 = Arnold|first2 = L. Eugene|last3 = Dixon|first3 = Katharine N.|journal = The American Journal of Psychiatry|volume = 135|issue = 7|pages = 835–8|pmid = 665796|doi = 10.1176/ajp.135.7.835|hdl-access = free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Meyer |first1=Isabel Denholm |last2=Dorais |first2=Michel |title=Don't tell: the sexual abuse of boys |url=https://archive.org/details/donttellsexualab0000dora |publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press |location=Montreal |year=2002 |page=[https://archive.org/details/donttellsexualab0000dora/page/24 24] |isbn=978-0-7735-2261-9}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Courtois |first=Christine A. |title=Healing the incest wound: adult survivors in therapy |url=https://archive.org/details/healingincestwou00cour |publisher=Norton |location=New York |year=1988 |isbn=978-0-393-31356-7}}{{Page needed|date=September 2010}}</ref> Similarly, some argue that sibling incest may be as common, or more common, than other types of incest: Goldman and Goldman<ref>{{Cite journal|vauthors=Goldman JD, Padayachi UK |title=The prevalence and nature of child sexual abuse in Queensland, Australia |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_child-abuse-neglect_1997-05_21_5/page/489 |journal=Child Abuse & Neglect |volume=21 |issue=5 |pages=489–98 |date=May 1997 |pmid=9158908 |doi=10.1016/S0145-2134(97)00008-2}}</ref> reported that 57% of incest involved siblings; Finkelhor reported that over 90% of [[nuclear family]] incest involved siblings;<ref>Finkelhor, D. (1979). Sexually [[victimised]] children. New York: Free Press</ref> while Cawson et al. show that sibling incest was reported twice as often as incest perpetrated by fathers/stepfathers.<ref>{{Cite book|first1=Pat |last1=Cawson |first2=Corinne |last2=Wattam |first3=Sue |last3=Brooker |title=Child Maltreatment in the United Kingdom: A Study of the Prevalence of Child Abuse and Neglect |publisher=National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children |location=London |year=2000 |isbn=978-1-84228-006-5}}{{Page needed|date=September 2010}}</ref> Prevalence of parental child sexual abuse is difficult to assess due to secrecy and privacy; some estimates state that 20 million Americans have been victimized by parental incest as children.<ref name=Turner /> 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. 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