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My heart breaks for parents who learn that their children found themselves unable to confide in them about rape.

• whatsupdog 8mo ago
  I doubt the mother didn't know.
  • rectang 8mo ago
    From Maternal Perceptions Of And Responses To Child Sexual Abuse https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4845772/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4845772/ : > But it was estimated that from 30% to even 80% of victims do not purposefully disclose their misuse before adulthood. [...] > Arata found an inverse relationship between the disclosure and severity of abuse. Subjects reporting contact sexual abuse were significantly less likely to disclose it than those reporting non-contact sexual abuse. > The duration of sexual abuse has a significant impact on its disclosure – the longer children are abused, the more hesitant they may be to disclose their abuse.