What this blog is about.
This blog is being set up to help parents of children who have been through sexual abuse.
When my husband and I learned that 3 of our daughters had all experienced abuse by my own father several years before it was a major shock.
It took me weeks to stop crying and rationalising - I kept trying to find ways of explanation for what might have really happened, rather than what I’d been told happened. How could I possibly equate the loving gentle father I’d known when growing up as a monster who had ruined the lives our daughters and who was responsible for all their fears, their panic attacks, attempts to hurt themselves and run away? I had no memory of anything ever happening to myself or my sisters when we were young - what on earth happened to make our dad become this person we no longer know or understand?
This is a journal of our experience, and how we are handling it, in the hope that it will also help others. We welcome comments from parents who have been through it and survived, and from others who have just gained the knowledge of this horror which has touched their lives.
Together we can make a difference and help our children and each other, move on with our lives.
