Should I Alert Others About My Uncle?

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Heather worries about the safety of other children now that the uncle who fondled her is a father and pediatrician. Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast.
0:02.9	You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.3	Heather, welcome to the program.
0:13.6	Hi, Dr. Laura. How are you?
0:15.2	Hey, good. Thank you. What's up?
0:18.1	I am calling because I was molested by my uncle when I was. I'm not even sure what age I was.
0:29.4	I think I was somewhere between five and seven maybe.
0:34.1	And what were the circumstances of this?
0:36.9	How did he have access to you?
0:39.5	I, okay, well, that's complicated.
0:41.0	But my, so my mom.
0:43.4	I don't care if it's complicated.
0:45.1	It's important.
0:46.1	I'm willing to slog through the complication with you.
0:49.6	I understand that.
0:51.8	My mother was very sick for pretty much all of my childhood in and out of the hospital, pain medication out of it. She was not very present. My dad worked a lot. What was her problem? What was her problem?
1:04.3	Well, she had a very severe Crohn's disease mixed with bowel
1:13.2	destruction mixed with a bunch of really terrible stuff.
1:17.0	But she also had some pretty severe addictions to the pain medication.
1:22.5	So that took her out of our lives.
1:27.0	She was bedridden for pretty much all of my childhood, pretty much.
1:31.4	Or in the hospital.
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