E. Sue Blume

In healthy development, trust evolves. How do we decide whether to trust? We share a feeling with someone and watch their reaction; if the response feels safe, if it is caring, noncritical, non-abusive, the first step of trust has developed. For trust to grow, this positive response must become part of a relatively reliable pattern_ Trust develops with consistency over time.

If I, as a child, claim that something awful has happened__hat someone has done something terrible to me__nd everyone around me acts as if nothing is the matter, then either I must be crazy, or all of them are. And when you__e a kid and your life depends on all these people, there is no choice: of course, I must be crazy.

...Incest is rape by extortion. Thus the child's very childhood becomes a weapon used to control her.