Family Incest Info & Resources
On September - 9 - 2011
Incest is defined as sexual contact between people so closely related that they may not legally marry. In certain contexts the term has been expanded to include sexual contact with caregivers in who an individual depends for day-to-day care (such as a step-parent or a babysitter). Incest generally occurs as child sexual abuse by an older family member to a younger child or teenager. The perpetrator can be anyone in the child’s family: a parent, a sibling, an uncle, a grandfather, just to name a few.
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By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
Educate Yourself -- Learn the Facts
It May Just Save a Child's Life!!
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