“Maternal response to a child’s sexual abuse is critical. A mother’s support for a victim can help stop the abuse and mitigate the immediate psychological effects, plus decrease negative long-term outcomes. Without it, adults who were incestuously abused as children end up as adults presenting with a myriad of psychological problems, including sexual dysfunction, periods of promiscuity, depression, intense guilt, substance abuse, marital difficulties. And they risk emotionally or physically abusing their own children, committing incest themselves.”
