Oprah: Incest Revisited
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.
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.
Stephen Viscusi | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business
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...
Trish Kinney | Posted 10.05.2009 | Living
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.
Allison Anders | Posted 10.01.2009 | Entertainment
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.
Deborah Calla | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living
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.
yourtango.com | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living
Ever since Mackenzie Phillips dropped the bombshell on Oprah Winfrey last week about her decade-long "consensual" sexual relationship with her late fa...
Trish Kinney | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living
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.
Susan Harrow | Posted 09.27.2009 | Living
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.
Huffington Post | Posted 11.25.2009 | Entertainment
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...
Michael Wolff | Posted 11.25.2009 | Entertainment
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.
Posted 11.24.2009 | Entertainment
(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...
Alex Leo | Posted 11.22.2009 | Entertainment
Mackenzie Phillips could not have given consent. She was 19 and drugged out of her mind and her father raped her.
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.30.2009 | World
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...
AP | ALINA WOLFE MURRAY and GEORGE JAHN | Posted 04.21.2009 | World
BUCHAREST, Romania — Surprising as it may seem, incest is not always a crime in Europe. Three European Union nations _ France, Spain and Portug...
AP | VERONIKA OLEKSYN and WILLIAM J. KOLE | Posted 04.18.2009 | World
ST. POELTEN, Austria — Josef Fritzl abruptly pleaded guilty to all of the charges against him Wednesday _ a surprising twist amid disclosures th...
AP | VERONIKA OLEKSYN | Posted 04.17.2009 | World
ST. POELTEN, Austria — The woman who bore seven children through incest and was allegedly locked in a squalid dungeon for 24 years confronted he...
AP | VERONIKA OLEKSYN | Posted 04.16.2009 | World
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...
A Pakistan News | Posted 02.23.2009 | World
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...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics
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.
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
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.
Eleanor Smeal | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics
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.
ABC News | Posted 05.14.2008 | Living
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...
Deborah King | Posted 04.29.2008 | Living
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.
Deborah King | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living