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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find people on this thread incredibly naive about how life really works.

I was in a similar situation to the sister. There was only one incident and I shut it down and told my mother.

And then life went on. No one was reported or charged. We maintained our family life. I forgave my father and moved on. He babysat our kids and life moved on.

It is a fiction that you can blow up relationships like this and have it be better. For us we needed our father's income growing up. I would not have been better off without him. In addition, I loved my dad. His terrible mistake and all.

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Am I the only one that finds this disturbing? I find this unforgivable regardless if it was just once, and over my dead body would I let him be alone with my children. Once that line is crossed by a parent, there is no going back.  I consider myself a flexible thinker but this one got me. [/quote].
Pretty sure most of us find this disturbing.[/quote]

No, this is actually what MOST people do. They get through it and soldier on.

I know several families like this from when I was a kid in the 60s. There was no leaving abusers. Wives didn't have jobs and if the scandal of abuse became known, the entire family was ostracized.

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And those people deal with it for the rest of their lives. These people are not in any way dependent on the pedophile. Why on earth would any sane parent put their children at risk?

I have friends that have survived horrific childhood abuse. They are not okay. Decades later, despite therapy. [/quote]

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