Re: Sexual contact between adopted siblings

["John M Price PhD" <jmprice@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, PAMELA S. PETERSEN wrote:

> This is an interesting area of investigation and research. However, I
> notice that one of the factors is "no known history of other sexual
> abuse". The word "known" is important. Sexual abuse of young children
> is difficult to discover and frequently goes unreported; when
> reported, it is difficult to substantiate. The situation described
> strongly suggests an undiscovered history of some form of sexual abuse
> of one or both children, and I would hesitate to assume otherwise.

Could you please articulate just why?  Having read some of the literature
on kid sexual behavior (kids selected for nonabuse status), I see not a
thing out of the ordinary especially when you filter it through normal kid
development.  (Remember, there is a decade of history here.)  What,
specifically, factually and data based, makes you think so ill of the
situation?

As far as the literature is concerend, one might go to the old kibbutz
data.  However I seem to recall that those programs (the extreme move in
for months type) have been stopped.  Parents, and kids, really did want to
be close together.


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