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    Excerpt from  Healing from Incest   by Geri Henderson and Seanne Emerton: Funeral   Looking at him lying there, at peace for the first time in his life no doubt, I knew that anything we'd shared, good or bad, was over. There was a feeling of complete separation and release that surprised me. I expected to feel something, seeing my father’s body—at least, to sense a familiar dread and fear—but those feelings simply were not there. The lack of feeling, positive or negative, was another new experience. There was nothing more to fear, and I had no regret that our journey together had ended as it had. It was not the end that I had read about or was told is healthy for such relationships. There was no great apology, no dramatic separation, and no therapeutic confrontation. Just an end to what had been a terrible and long journey of struggle and hope.   (I have now realized, that there were many things that came to an end that day, but there are others...

  Excerpt from  Healing from Incest   by Geri Henderson and Seanne Emerton: Child Sexual Abuse Statistics [1] The prevalence of child sexual abuse is difficult to determine because it is often not reported; experts agree that the incidence is far greater than what is reported to authorities. Child sex abuse (CSA) is also not uniformly defined, so statistics may vary. Statistics below represent some of the research done on child sexual abuse. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Children’s Bureau report Child Maltreatment 2010 found that 9.2% of victimized children were sexually assaulted (page 24). Studies by David Finkelhor [2] , Director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center [3] , show that: ●       1 in 5 girls and 1 in 20 boys is a victim of child sexual abuse; ●       Self-report studies show that 20% of adult females and 5-10% of adult males recall a childhood sexual assault or sexua...