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    I read something the other day about a topic that keeps getting attention lately, even though it’s hard to talk about it. I’m talking about incest.

    It’s tough to imagine that a father would use his own daughter. And the truth is it really doesn’t happen all that often. A study done in Finland found that only about two percent of the fathers were guilty of incest. But step-fathers are fifteen times more likely to have an incestous relationship.

    This just says one more time that as parents when we choose divorce, the lives of our children are drastically affected in the years to come. It validates what the Bible has been saying all along: one man, one woman, for life.

    That’s the ideal. If there’s an exception to the rule, we have to be really careful about what happens to the children.

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