Survivors of childhood emotional abuse should know about the impacts of covert incest. A healthy emotional bond between a parent and child should be close and loving, with children able to rely on and trust their parents for emotional support. However, when the parent relies on the child to fulfill their emotional needs, then that closeness can become suffocating. The lack of appropriate boundaries in covert incest creates an emotional burden that lasts into adulthood, and can result in a variety of problems with intimacy and relationships. Covert incest is a specific type of emotional abuse in which a parent relies on a child for emotional support, affirmation, and care that should be provided by a spouse. Unlike overt incest, covert incest does not involve physical touching, but instead is as non-physical sexual behaviour between two relatives.
What does ‘Covert Incest’ Mean?
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The incest taboo is one of the most widespread of all cultural taboos , both in present and in past societies. In most cases, the parents did not have the option to marry to remove that status, as incestuous marriages were, and are, normally also prohibited. A common justification for prohibiting incest is avoiding inbreeding : a collection of genetic disorders suffered by the children of parents with a close genetic relationship.
Marie Warga, at the age she says her father was sexually abusing her. Marie Warga learned that her father was attempting to contact her, she wrote this letter to him. Warga is entering her senior year in college, and intends to become a lawyer. I am writing this letter since hearing that you were attempting to contact me. There are things I need to hear myself say to you before I read or hear anything from you. First, I am going to tell you that you were lucky. You are a man who was able to violate the trust. The destruction you caused was a mere chapter in your life. I know that you deny what you did to me when talking to others, but you cannot pretend with me.
