Links of Interest:

Parents United International

Children's Defense Fund

Institute on Violence, Culture, and Survival

National Children's Advocacy Center

National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information

Survivors and Victims Empowered (SAVE)

The Safer Society Foundation

Stop It Now

Survivor Connections

RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network)

Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers

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Bibliography:

(the titles below can be purchased from amazon.com by following the links - a percentage of all sales will go to SARA, the Sexual Assault Resource Agency in Charlottesville, VA.)

Armstrong, Louise. (1978). Kiss daddy goodnight. New York: Simon & Schuster.	Bass, Ellen and Davis, Laura. (1988). The courage to heal. New York: Harper & Row.
Bass, Ellen and Thornton, Louise (eds.). (1983). I never told anyone. New York: Harper & Row.	Bradshaw, John. (1995). Family secrets. New York: Bantam Books.
Butler, Sandra. (1978). Conspiracy of silence. Volcano, CA: Volcano Press.	Davis, Laura. (1991). Allies in healing. New York: HarperCollins.
Eisler, Riane. (1987). The chalice and the blade. New York: HarperSanFrancisco.	Forward, Susan and Buck, Craig. (1978). Betrayal of innocence. New York: Penguin Books.
Lew, Mike. (1988). Victims no longer. New York: HarperCollins	Miller, Alice. (1990). Banished knowledge. New York: Anchor Books.
Miller, Alice. (1993). Breaking down the wall of silence. New York: Meridian.	Peck, M. Scott. (1978). The road less traveled. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Peck, M. Scott. (1983). People of the lie. New York: Simon & Schuster.	Rush, Florence. (1980). The best kept secret. New York: McGraw-Hill.

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Related Movies:

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Nuts:
Flashbacks of incest of young girl by step-father.

Barbra Streisand as prostitute on trial for murder says: "Maybe they're right. Maybe I am crazy. I didn't tell him to stop. I just wanted him to love me, that's all."

Prince of Tides: ( based on the novel by Pat Conroy)
Repressed traumatic memory of young boy being anally raped.

Nick Nolte as Tom Wingo says: "I didn't tell anyone. Mama said, 'It's over. This did not happen.' Mother said the minute we breathe a word about it is the minute she stops being our mother."

The General's Daughter: (based on the novel by Nelson DeMille)
Rape of young woman and ensuing silence.

Father to daughter: "Try not to think about it. We want what's best for you. Don't think about any of this again. None of this ever happened."

John Travolta as Paul Brenner, the army investigator: "I asked once 'what is worse than rape?' Now I know - betrayal."

Lolita: (based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov)
Sexual affair of step-father with young adolescent girl.

Jeremy Irons as Herbert Humbert says: "I was the willing corrupter of an innocent. ·What I heard then was the melody of children at play· and I knew that the hopelessly poignant thing was the absence of Lolita's voice from that chorus."

A Thousand Acres: (based on the novel by Jane Smiley)
Father-daughter incest, flashbacks and repressed traumatic memory.

Jessica Lange, as oldest daughter says "Rose left us a riddle I haven't solved. Of how we judge those who have hurt us when they've shown no remorse or even understanding."

Dolores Claiborne: (based on the novel by Stephen King)
Father-daughter incest, repressed traumatic memory.

Kathy Bates, as Delores Claiborne to her daughter: "The trouble you're in won't change my love for you. But I can't help you until you tell me the truth."

The Color Purple: (based on the novel by Alice Walker)
Father-daughter rape and pregnancy.

Whoppi Goldberg as Celie, "Dear God, I'm 14 years old. I've always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign. Let me know what's happening to me. One day my Daddy come and say, 'You're gonna do what your Mama wouldn't.' Now I got two children by my Daddy."

"All my life I had to fight. Had to fight my Daddy. Girl child ain't safe in a family of men."

A Time to Kill: (based on the novel by John Grisham)
Child rape.

A Time to Kill: Samuel Jackson, as Carl Lee Halley, the father of a 10-year-old girl raped by 2 men, speaking to his lawyer, "You got a daughter? What would you do? I didn't have nothing against those boys but they messed with my baby."

Matthew McConaughey, as the lawyer, " I was looking at my daughter, looking how tender she is. I was thinking about all the monsters out there who would steal their innocence - take a life if they want. Yeah, I wanted those boys dead. You're goddam right I did."

The Cider House Rules: (based on the novel by John Irving)
Father-daughter rape and pregnancy.

The Cider House Rules: Tobey Maguire, as Homer Wells, to Delroy Lindo, as Mr. Rose: " Mr. Rose! Is it true? Are you sleeping with your own daughter? You're having sex with your own daughter! Aren't you ashamed of yourself?

Mr. Rose: "I love her. I ain't never gonna do nothing to harm her."

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