the problem have been tried and have failed. Removal of the child is now the most viable option.
Margaret Beyer says that preserving the family should be the way children are helped, and while she might be right that reasonable effort to do so should be made, this does not identify what "reasonable" means. The concept has been embodied in law with the adoption in 1980 of the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act (Beyer 176). In many instances, though, removing the child from the parental home is the best and perhaps only way of assuring that child's protection. In a case of this sort, it is better to err on the side of caution and offer the needed protection by removing children from the home once the parent or parents have been convicted of abusing that child.
Incest is a particular type of child abuse involving close blood relations, and many studies of molestation will include data on incest as a particular subheading. May discusses the victims of child abuse and concentrates in his analysis on abuse by fathers and st
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