of love from her mother to her father. Little girls desire their fathers, behaving seductively towards them, and hate their mothers, behaving competitively towards them. (Ward 1984, p.102). To explain Incest, Freud's Oedipus Complex casts the daughter as the active desiring agent who wants her father to be her lover. The child is seen as the seducer while the father is seen as the seduced. In this view the father is seen as innocent and passive while the child is seen as the aggressor.
             Many psychiatrists and psychoanalysts have adopted the psychoanalytic theory as founded by Freud which has had a huge influence on our understanding of sexual abuse. More important, throughout my research I found that many myths surrounding child sexual abuse that are common in our culture can be traced back to this theory. There are several limitations of this approach and the validity has been seriously discredited. First research has revealed that childhood sexual assault and incest does exist and are quite prevalent. For example Liz Kelly et al (1991) surv
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