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One in six families have been impacted by INCEST, shocking report claims - and it's still legal to some extent in 19 states
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13223477/One-six-families-impacted-INCEST-shocking-report-claims-legal-extent-19-states.html
Nearly one in six families have been impacted by incest at some point, according to a shocking new analysis that has not been peer reviewed.
The taboo subject of incest is becoming increasingly discussed as at-home DNA tests from companies like Ancestry and 23&me become more common, revealing uncomfortable truths about family connections.
It has previously been estimated that as few as as 2 percent of Americans had experienced sexual contact with a family member.
But a review of hundreds of studies by a sexual health company earlier this month estimated that 15 percent of US families have had an 'incest event.'
Dr David Lawson, a Texas-based psychologist who specializes in sexual abuse and trauma, told DailyMail.com that the true figure is likely higher: 'Whatever statistics you get, they’re probably conservative because these things are not things people tend to report.'
The results are from an analysis by the sexual health company BedBible, rather than a university or research team, and the methodology has not been made public.
There are no firm estimates for incest cases in the US because it often involves sexual abuse against a child and goes unreported.
But the new figure is not entirely out of sync with other estimates.
In her book Healing the Incest Wound: Adult Survivors in Therapy, psychologist Dr Christine Courtois says prevalence among women is as high as 20 percent - though that book is almost 40 years old.
More recent data have put the prevalence at between 2 and 10 percent.
Dr Lawson said: 'There’s only about less than 20 or 30 percent of people that were sexually abused within the family that actually disclose that sometime during childhood and most of them feel like they’re punished for that.
‘The stats would probably be higher if the facts were known.' Meanwhile, CDC research indicates that one in four girls and one in six boys are sexually abused before the age of 18 - the vast majority (91 percent) by someone the child or their family knows.
BedBible says its researchers analyzed more than 290 published peer-reviewed articles including data from more than 11 million people spanning from 1980 to 2023. In that time, it said, 10 to 15 percent of families had incest events in their family trees. The majority were girls, according to the analysis - with one in five girls victims of incest compared with one in 14 boys.
A quarter of cases involve two people not biologically related - such as a stepfather and stepdaughter - but the remainder are between two blood relatives.
Incest is still legal to some extent in 19 US states, where two first cousins can marry. Most of the states fall on the coasts and in the South. Data aggregator World Population Review and legal and estate planning company Hive Law named the following states hotspots for inbreeding: Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, Virginia, South Dakota, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Montana.