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Almost without realizing what I was doing, I began to use my particular creativity to explore the incest of which (some would say) I was victim, from which (some would say) I survived. ... At this point on my journey, I would say we are much more than victims. Survivors, yes, but always damaged, always scarred, most often with wounds forever raw.²⁰

Incest is the sexual seduction, molestation, and/or rape of a child by any relative (blood, step, adoptive), trusted care-giver, or friend of the family.²¹ The term victim is used to identify the one who was sexually abused. The term survivor is used by those who prefer to see themselves as having survived sexual victimization. The term I use for parents who were conscious of the abuse but remained silent witnesses is co-offenders.