I personally am very grateful for that movie. It was the first prime-time television movie about incest that was handled well and aroused a lot of good discussion. Incest Survivors Resource Network International is a survivor-run educational resource for incest victims. Eriksson, an incest survivor herself, is glad that the film industry is exposing a social problem that has been the source of a lot of pain for many people. But she fears that the melodrama Hollywood may inject into the issue can scare off closeted victims of child abuse.
Incest is a rampant problem but films often sensationalize it.
But many people are coming out. With talk shows revealing family secrets, criminals claiming that they are victims of abuse, domestic violence, child abuse and incest have become common words in people's everyday vocabulary. Kuntz theorizes that the recent trend in films featuring incest is indicative of the generational trend to trace indiscretions back to bad childhoods. Incest and molestation have been found to be a source of a lot of crime. There are criminals who have been molested by their families and this issue has been brought to the surface for a good reason by criminologists.