We know that childhood sexual abuse leads to many forms of addiction and self-destructive behavior. And more than the abuse itself, women mourn the fact that no one protected them. Their mothers didn’t help them or, in some cases, refused to believe them—particularly when the offending person was someone the mother loved. Mothers who turn the other way when their boyfriends, their husbands, or their own parents sexually violate their daughters are part of the abuse.
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