The Chinese have been drowning girl babies for centuries and ritual abuse of toddlers, infants, and teens around the world still occurs. It is information and awareness that will change our society's patterns of violence. Being abused as a child makes a woman more vulnerable to abuse as an adult. One study in California found that the average number of assaults for females in a Rape Crisis Program was 20. When they finally take the chance to talk to others they found, as many do, that they can help others and themselves by talking and listening.
Silence is our enemy and the abuser's friend.
If I was a better girl, Daddy would love me and not do this to me. Abuse by another is never your fault. Abuse can be the fire that tempers the steel and makes you strong. Sometimes it is very hard for survivors to tell the difference between those who will hurt them and those who will not. Abusers count on that.