RE: sexual contact between adopted siblings

["Prescott, Ken" <presck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Since Adoption is a legally sanctioned relationship, then sexual contact
between adopted siblings would come under the same laws that govern other
families.  I would suggest that you look at this case through the lens of
sexual reactivity and begin to explore the extent of the relationship, their
individual sexualized behavior and their history specifically looking for
incidence of sex,  domestic violence, or pornography.  See Toni Cavanagh
Johnson's Ph.D. work.  Her site is: http://www.tcavjohn.com/

Ken Prescott, MSW, LCSW
Los Angeles, California

-----Original Message-----
From: rbarth@email.unc.edu [mailto:rbarth@email.unc.edu]
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 9:14 AM
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
Subject: Re: sexual contact between adopted siblings


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

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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



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