"As recently as 1975, a basic American psychiatry textbook estimated that the frequency of all forms of incest as one case per million. [James Henderson, "Incest", in A. M. Freedman, H.I. Kaplan and B.J. Sadock, eds., Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 2nd ed. 1975 p. 1532.]"

"Most of our informants [incest survivors] remembered their mothers as weak and powerless, finding their only dignity in martyrdom."

"Because the child does not have the power to withhold consent, she does not have the power to grant it."