Incest

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This paper explains that incest ranks as the most abominable of sexual offenses, especially since it often involves abuse of minors and often is one of the best-kept secrets within a family. The author points out that victims are often blamed within their families and obtaining a conviction through the courts is a long and tedious process; however, relatively recent laws in Montana, Canada and Washington State are now condemning the rapist in these cases of incest. The paper stresses that victims are affected for the rest of their lives with a variety of behavioral disturbances such as eating disorders, prostitution, frigidity and sometimes unwittingly encouraging incestuous behavior in their own families; nonetheless, recovery is possible with work with professional help, often at least two years of psychotherapy.

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"Within families, many simply try to get rid of the products of such taboo unions through abortion, adoption, or abandonment in children's homes, once again punishing the innocent rather than the culprit. In some nations, despite the universality of the taboo nature, in cases of incest young female victims can expect to be thrown out of their family's home without any means of support while their adult attackers are given all time and leeway to sell their property and organize a living for themselves elsewhere."

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