In reply to marsbar:
> Quite. And if the images suddenly turn up in a few years time having been circulating I am sure that a stiff upper lip will see them through.
I dunno, I think you may perhaps be making an issue out of something when there needn't be one. I think there 'can' be something to be said for not making something potentially traumatic, possibly more traumatic by focusing on how awful it is.
I've no personal experience of anything like this, but I remember reading a woman's account of being molested by a family friend one Christmas day, and she wrote about how helpful it was for her that the men of the family just got the family friend to leave, and then her family focused on making her feel warm and safe at home, and to paraphrase carried on as normal, rather than focusing on what had just happened.
I'm sure that for some people, this wouldn't be helpful, but she wrote about this being just what was right for her, and how she was able to move on from it without any lasting ill effects.
What I'm saying is that one approach doesn't suit all children*, and that Rob's may quite easily be the right one for his.
*Which I guess is why parents can do everything 'right', and their children can still sometimes need therapy to do with family or childhood issues, which their siblings may not have.
Edit: Having known a lad who was abused and did have lasting ill effects, I do sometimes think anybody who is guilty and goes to jail should probably stay there for something like 20 years, or long enough to seriously mess with the course of their life's path. It's one of the most unfair things that can happen to somebody, but possibly there's better ways of addressing it.
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