ext_15520 ([identity profile] eumenidis.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] crabby_lioness 2013-07-10 11:03 pm (UTC)

I don't think we can realistically hope that; short of imposing reversible sterilization on everyone till they pass tests of mental health, as in Lois Bujold's Vorkosigan novels, abusive, destructive people are going to have kids & do considerable harm before the kids can get outside help. The most we can hope for is that kids in the '80s & '90s were taken seriously rather than just being dismissed as liars or delusional. (Excuse me, I'm particularly bitter about the mainstream psychiatric establishment's view in the '50s & '60s that sexually abused kids, particularly girls, were either imagining the abuse, or had seduced poor, helpless Daddy, Bubba or Cousin Fred.)

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