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17 J. Child Sexual Abuse 1 (2008)

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               QUALITATIVE STUDIES








             Incest and Parental Contact:

          A   Psychologist's Personal Case

                  and Literature Review

                             Anonymous





     ABSTRACT. A psychologist's husband molested their   young daughter.
     Consulting psychologists purported that research indicated it would be
     developmentally advantageous for their daughter to continue a relationship
     with the father following the marital separation. The consulting psycholo-
     gists did not reference the literature, prompting the mother to conduct a lit-
     erature review herself. The available literature recommending that a child
     continue the paternal relationship cites research on children of divorce, not


   The author would like to thank Robert Geffner, PhD, and the yearly Family
Violence Institute conferences that bring professional protective mothers
together for support and information sharing. The author would also like to thank
Richard Ducote, Esq., and Seth Goldstein, Esq., for their support and tireless
work in helping protective mothers and their children.
   Appreciation also goes to Stephanie Dallam for her assistance in finding
articles difficult to retrieve, and to Joan Kelly, PhD, for addressing a question
about the research. The author would also like to thank Wendy Titleman for her
support and offer prayers for her and her two girls, who at the time of this writing,
are still in the custody of their father.
   Submitted for publication 8/27/05; revised 5/9/07; accepted 6/6/07.
              Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, Vol. 17(1) 2008
              Available online at http://jcsa.haworthpress.com
           D 2008 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.
                     doi:10.1080/10538710701884276                    1

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