Re: sexual contact between adopted siblings

[rbarth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rick Barth)]

Steve: I don't think you'll find such a literature, but since the children were
adopted at birth, in sequence, I would think that the general literature on sexual
contact between siblings would closely apply.  You might find something more
there, through Caliber's National Child Abuse and Neglect Clearinghouse
http://www.calib.com/nccanch/ .

Richard P. Barth, Ph.D.
Frank A Daniels Professor and
Chair of the Doctoral Program
School of Social Work
301 Pittsboro Rd
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC  27599-3550
(v) 919 962 6516
(f)        962 1486

-- Begin original message --

From: Steve1526@aol.com
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 17:25:25 EDT
Subject: sexual contact between adopted siblings
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers   <CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu>
Reply-To: CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu

I would appreciate help locating any literature on sexual contact between 
adopted siblings. I am conducting an evaluation of a family with children 
adopted at birth, with a 2 year age difference between them, in which there 
was extensive sexual involvement between the older boy and younger girl 
beginning at around ages 8 and 6 and continuing into late adolescence, with 
no known history of other sexual abuse.

Thanks very much for any help.

Steven Laffer, CSW
Hartsdale, NY



-- End original message --