History of incest in girls admitted to a psychiatric hospital
- 1 May 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 140 (5) , 591-593
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.5.591
Abstract
Of 437 adolescent girls admitted to a psychiatric hospital for emotional problems, 61 reported an incestuous involvement. Their mean age at the time of their first experience was 11.9 years. The liaisons occurred as often with fathers as with stepfathers; other, less frequent perpetrators of incest included brothers, brothers-in-law, uncles, a grandfather, an adoptive father, and a half-brother. The authors note that the victim of incest is almost always a preadolescent and that the occurrence of incest is probably not accurately reported nationally.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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