DNA Tests Are Uncovering the True Prevalence of Incest

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6. wow that's so sad...glad they've created support for others...

I've read other stories over the years but never realized how prevalent it was.

What so sad is that our generational trauma is so rampant. Whether it be violence or sexual, abuse is written into almost ALL of our ancestral DNA. It was common for our grandparents' or great grandparents' generations to beat spouses and children, who in tuen ended up beating their own...and so on.
I can see that directly in my grandparents, passed down to my parents...at least my parents made the conscious choices not to physically abuse eachother or us kids...but the verbal and emotional stuff was still thick. Turns pout my generation and my kids are the "cyclebreakers" for the most part...

My mom had a cousin she had a huge crush on that she spole of often, but we never knew what happened to him or how the family disconnected from him. My mom also tended to sexualize things sometimes when I was young...accusing my sister and I of something once when we were having a tickle fight. I was like 6 yrs old and couldn't understand the shame. I can't think of other specifics off the top of my head, but I wondered as an adult if something happened to her with that cousin?

Such a sad legacy for many families