This pioneering self-help book takes a close look at a topic that has
been ignored or downplayed by other books on incest and childhood sexual
abuse: that the non-perpetrating parent usually bears a great deal of
responsibility for the child's abuse. In this examination of the
complicated dynamics of abuse, the enabling mother is not treated as a
victim, rather as an adult responsible for her failure to protect her
child. Self-help exercises are interspersed with case histories and
analytical material throughout the book, useful to both survivors and
therapists.