Peter Levine: When abuse occurs within the family, and it could be emotional, physical or sexual abuse, the first thing, absolutely the first thing is the child must be protected. And the abusing parent or relative must be excluded from the family. The child absolutely has to know that their safety is the very premier thing. The other thing is that the parent, for example, the mother needs to get her own therapy, because she is probably filled with guilt. She may have had in some way a complicity by not seeing it, for example, if it was a boyfriend, and not wanting to lose the boyfriend. So she kind of, make a sort of ignore some of the signals. But everybody really needs therapy and the child does too with a really competent therapist. Because there’s a lot of confusion, a lot of guilt, a lot of shame. And it’s really important that the child get the full support, but the main thing again, is that the parent, that’s not the abusing parent make it absolutely clear to the child that they would be protected. And even that can be a little bit tricky because sometimes they don’t want the relative to feel bad by being excluded. But again, that’s something that a good therapist can help the child deal with. So the main point here is that when it occurs within the family, which a lot of abuse does, the fact that is the child’s protectors, the person that’s supposed to love and care and hold the child in an appropriate way, is transgressing the child’s boundaries. That’s tremendously confusing to the child. And needs help to sort those things out.