Sibling Sexual Abuse: A Parent's Nightmare, a Family's Anguish.

SEXUAL ABUSE BY A BROTHER OR SISTER IS THOUGHT TO BE ONE OF THE MOST COMMON FORMS OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE. "It's a huge problem, but so many survivors don't come forward", says Brad Watts, a counselor who works with families affected by SSA and the author of I Sibling Sexual Abuse: A Guide for Confronting America's Silent Epidemic, i one of the few books on the subject. Later, Hope [a pseudonym she is using to protect her family's identity] and her husband learned the awful truth: Their oldest had been sexually abusing their middle son for about a year. [Extracted from the article]

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