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Oprah: Incest Revisited

Deborah King | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Mackenzie Phillips Incest, The Kiss, High-on-Arrival, Truth Heals, MacKenzie Phillips, Mackenzie Phillips Oprah, Oprah, Incest, Oprah Winfrey Show, Katherine Harrison, Living News
Deborah King

Mackenzie Phillips has done everyone a huge favor by acting as our societal point person for incest and speaking out very publicly. I applaud her courage.

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Warning to the Boss: Think of Having Sex with Your Employee as the Same as Incest!

Stephen Viscusi | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Blackrock, Bill Clinton, MacKenzie Phillips, Sex Scandal, Incest, Career Advice, Jobs, The Ed Sullivan Theatre, Cbs, Bulletproof-Your-Resume, Tiffany Network, Bulletproof Your Job, High on Arrival, Walter Cronkite, Katie Couric, Office Romance, Bill O'Reilly, David Letterman, Business News
Stephen Viscusi

Bosses..does that make the point any easier to remember? At least once a month, I get a call from a TV producer or reporter, who is covering a stor...

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Standing with Miss America 1958

Trish Kinney | Posted 10.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Denver, Marilyn Van Derbur, Miss America, Incest, Sexual Abuse, Colorado, Child Sexual Abuse, Living News
Trish Kinney

Survivors of abuse cannot all stand in a single auditorium together. God knows there are far too many of us for that. But we can stand together. The time has come for us to be known and heard.

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Art Is Not Enough

Allison Anders | Posted 10.01.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Mackenzie Phillips Incest, Roman Polanski Arrest, MacKenzie Phillips, Rape, Incest, John-Phillips-Incest, Roman Polanski Court Case, Roman Polanksi Rape, Roman Polanski, John Phillips, Entertainment News
Allison Anders

Art should never be held above our decency to each other. And when an artist commits a crime, especially a sex crime and especially against a child, we do art no favor by giving artists a break we would not give anyone else.

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A Beautiful Life

Deborah Calla | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Victims, Rape, Filmmaking, Incest, Survivors, Film, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, Roman Polanski, Living News
Deborah Calla

I worry about people who are abused who are silent and surrounded by others who continue to blame them for their role as "victims" and perpetrate another painful form of abuse: the malice of ignorance.

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How To Know When Sex Is Not Consensual

yourtango.com | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Mackenzie Phillips Incest, Rape, Relationships, Incest, Sexuality, Sex, Living News

Ever since Mackenzie Phillips dropped the bombshell on Oprah Winfrey last week about her decade-long "consensual" sexual relationship with her late fa...

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Oprah, Mackenzie, and the Fam

Trish Kinney | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Mackenzie Phillips Incest, Mackenzie Phillips Sex With Father, Oprah Winfrey, MacKenzie Phillips, Mackenzie Phillips Oprah, Rape, Mackenzie Phillips Family Secret, Incest, Mackenzie Phillips on Oprah, Silver Platter Girl, Howard Stern Mackenzie Phillips, Howard Stern, Living News
Trish Kinney

I, too, have a new memoir, which focuses on paternal sexual abuse. But my story is nothing like Mackenzie's. It is hard for anyone to relate to the perfect storm of dreadful circumstances which doomed her.

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Mackenzie Phillips Slept With Her Dad

Susan Harrow | Posted 09.27.2009 | Living

Read More: MacKenzie Phillips, Rape, The Mamas and the Papas, Incest, Body Image, Self-Love, Chynna Phillips, Self-Esteem, The Oprah Winfrey Show, John Phillips, Living News
Susan Harrow

While Phillips's is an extreme case, you don't have to sleep with or have been raped by your dad to feel bad about yourself, your body or your sexuality.

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Stepmom Michelle Phillips: I'm Mad At Mackenzie

Huffington Post | Posted 11.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Mackenzie Phillips Incest, Television, Oprah Winfrey, MacKenzie Phillips, Michelle Phillips, Mackenzie Phillips Oprah, Incest, Entertainment News

Michelle Phillips, John Phillips' second wife and a former member of The Mamas and the Papas, has some choice words for her stepdaughter. She finds Ma...

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Mackenzie Phillips Scores

Michael Wolff | Posted 11.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Mackenzie Phillips Incest, Drug Addiction, Michael Wolff, The Mamas & the Papas, MacKenzie Phillips, Michelle Phillips, Mackenzie Phillips Oprah, Incest, Mackenzie Phillips Family Secret, Heroin, John Phillips, Entertainment News
Michael Wolff

As it happens, whenever we follow an incest story at Newser it becomes the biggest story. The Phillips story is even bigger because it's not just an incest story but also a disputed incest story.

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Mackenzie Phillips Defends Father Despite Incest, Stepmom Michelle Phillips Calls Her A Liar (VIDEO)

Posted 11.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Mackenzie Phillips Incest, Video, MacKenzie Phillips, Michelle Phillips, Incest, John Phillips, Entertainment News

(AP TEXT, SCROLL FOR VIDEO) NEW YORK - Mackenzie Phillips has defended her father John Phillips as "a good man" despite her claims that they had an i...

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Mackenzie Phillips' Rape: Incest Is NEVER Consensual

Alex Leo | Posted 11.22.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Mackenzie Phillips Incest, Mackenzie Phillips Sex With Father, MacKenzie Phillips, Mackenzie Phillips Oprah, Mackenzie Phillips Rape, Mackenzie Phillips Family Secret, Mckenzie Phillips' Father, Phillips Incest, John Phillips Rape, John Phillips, Mckenzie Phillips Incest, Consensual Incest, Incest, Mckenzie Phillips, Rape, Consensual, Entertainment News
Alex Leo

Mackenzie Phillips could not have given consent. She was 19 and drugged out of her mind and her father raped her.

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Incest, Rape And Family Dysfunction Around The World

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.30.2009 | World

Read More: Italian Fritzl, Rape, Incest, Hasmukh Rathod, Josef Fritzl, Foreign Affairs, Daniel Rinehart, Michele Mongelli, Arcebio Alvarez, Advocacy, Mumbai-India, India, World News

A quick round-up, just of this month, reveals a troubling repetition of incest, rape and depraved family dysfunction stories from around the world. W...

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Romania Weighs Decriminalizing Consensual Incest

AP | ALINA WOLFE MURRAY and GEORGE JAHN | Posted 04.21.2009 | World

Read More: Romania, Incest, Josef Fritzl, Consensual Incent, World News

BUCHAREST, Romania — Surprising as it may seem, incest is not always a crime in Europe. Three European Union nations _ France, Spain and Portug...

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Josef Fritzl Pleads Guilty To All Counts On Third Day Of Trial

AP | VERONIKA OLEKSYN and WILLIAM J. KOLE | Posted 04.18.2009 | World

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ST. POELTEN, Austria — Josef Fritzl abruptly pleaded guilty to all of the charges against him Wednesday _ a surprising twist amid disclosures th...

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Josef Fritzl Trial: Jurors View Video Of Daughter's Testimony On Day 2

AP | VERONIKA OLEKSYN | Posted 04.17.2009 | World

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ST. POELTEN, Austria — The woman who bore seven children through incest and was allegedly locked in a squalid dungeon for 24 years confronted he...

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Josef Fritzl Pleads Guilty To Incest, Not To Murder (SLIDESHOW)

AP | VERONIKA OLEKSYN | Posted 04.16.2009 | World

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ST. POELTEN, Austria — An Austrian who fathered seven children with a daughter he held captive for 24 years refused to even speak to her for yea...

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Irish Mother Jailed 7 Years For Raping Son

A Pakistan News | Posted 02.23.2009 | World

Read More: Europe, Jail, Rape, Ireland, Incest, Prison, World News

A 40-year-old Irish woman who forced her teenage son to have sex with her and abused her other five children for years in a rat-infested "house of hor...

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Mr. Obama Disagrees

Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Hate Crimes, Chicago, Incest, Brooklyn, Washington, Ron Kirk, White Supremacy, Same-Sex Marriage, California, Jewish Issues, Bailout, Inauguration, Rick Warren, Ohio, Nation of Islam, African-American Issues, Bill Clinton, Islam, Rape, Campaign Finance, Colombia, Pennsylvania, Pedophilia, Jeremiah Wright, Catholicism, New York, Sister Souljah, Religion, Labor, Cnn, Hilda Solis, Orange County, Aryan Nation, Ethanol, Bestiality, Gay Issues, Rick Warren Invocation, Rick Warren Saddleback Church, Obama Invocation, Barack Obama Rick Warren, Obama Inauguration, Rick Warren Obama Invocation, Invocation, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

Obama's choice of Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration is dreadful. His explanation is even worse. He shrinks Warren's statements about gay people down to a "disagreement," as if we're talking about ethanol subsidies.

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Victims of Sexual Abuse Get Heard

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Abortion, John McCain, Rape, Incest, National Institute for Reproductive Health, Women Against McCain-Palin, Media Matters Action Network, Roe vs. Wade, Feminism, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Sarah Palin, Msnbc, Erica Payne, Cnn, Swing States, SaysMe TV, Margaret Loeb, Hillary Clinton, The Democracy Alliance, Cecile Richards, Pro-Choice, Politics News
Marcia G. Yerman

With the nomination of Sarah Palin to the Republican ticket, women who had scattered after Hillary Clinton's defeat were reenergized as they coalesced in their opposition to Palin's abortion viewpoint.

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An Open Letter to Senator McCain

Eleanor Smeal | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Women's Rights, Violence Against Women Act, John McCain, Rape, Incest, Supreme Court Justice, The Feminist Majority, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Feminist Left, Voting Record, Eleanor Smeal, Mccain Voting Record, State Children's Health Insurance Program, Feminism, Barack Obama Feminism, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Breast Cancer Research Program, Roberts, Minimum Wage, Lilly Ledbetter, Roe v. Wade, Scalia, Politics News
Eleanor Smeal

Women, Senator McCain, vote on issues important to us, not on whether or not the candidate wears a skirt. The truth is, your candidacy is the worst for women in recent history.

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Scottish Siblings Fight For Their Forbidden Love (VIDEO)

ABC News | Posted 05.14.2008 | Living

Read More: Nick Cameron, Video, Genetic Sexual Attraction, Sibling Couple, Incest, Brother Sister Couple, Sibling Couple Scotland, Danielle Heaney, Danielle Heaney and Nick Cameron, Living News

Danielle Heaney and Nick Cameron are half siblings and they are in love. This poses some problems with the authorities in their native Scotland, where...

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Leaving for San Angelo, TX in the Morning

Deborah King | Posted 04.29.2008 | Living

Read More: Sexual Abuse of Children, Polygamy, Fundamentalists Latter Day Saints, Incest, Compound, Plural Wives, San Angelo TX, Flds, Cult, Living News
Deborah King

I've got to see for myself the mothers in floor length pioneer dresses buttoned up the neck and down the wrist, their long handled underwear peaking out, their uncut hair pulled up in a pompadour.

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