#9 - Top 40 Countdown '23: What Should I Do About My Son's Abuse?

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Dave is wondering if he should confront his older son about the allegations that he molested Dave's younger son more than 20 years ago. Email questions or comments: drlaura@drlaura.com - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live
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0:08.9	serious XM Triumph 111.
0:11.1	Dave welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Yes, hello.
0:15.0	Hi.
0:16.0	What's up?
0:18.0	Well, the summer summer I learned that my son who at the time was six years old was molested by my other son who at the time was 17 years old. This is back in
0:41.9	19 18 years old. This is back in 1998, so it's really quite some time ago. And I'm very, very close to my youngest son and it was a tremendous shock learning about it but I'm
0:58.2	trying to see he seems to be okay with it's been many years from his perspective. My other son I don't
1:06.2	I'm at a dilemma of knowing what to do I feel really helpless about not knowing.
1:15.0	And so I don't know what to do with the older son,
1:19.7	whether I should confront him or not.
1:21.4	I talked to a pastor, and my pastor said that this happens more often than you would
1:26.2	know and he learns about it about once a month or so and it's pretty common he said basically don't do anything and I don't know
1:36.0	whether not to do anything or whether to confront the older one, the younger son doesn't want to have a relationship with the older
1:47.0	son, which I understand, and I don't know what to do.
1:54.0	Okay, stop repeating I don't know what to do.
1:57.0	First of all, what would be the goal?
1:59.0	When we say I want to do something to create what?
2:03.0	What is it you'd like to have happened
2:05.0	after you injected yourself into this?
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