Alice Munro stood by her man. She’s not the only one

“It’s easier to blame the girl,” Beverley Chalmers told me in an interview.

Chalmers has long studied and written about the abuse of children around the world. Her latest book is Child Sex Abuse: Power, Profit and Perversion.

“Often the girl child is regarded as being compliant because that’s what we expect,” she explained. “‘You didn’t fight back. You went along with it. You came back for more. It’s your fault.'”

Chalmers pointed out that Munro’s daughter was abused twice — first by her stepfather, then by her mother, both as a child and throughout her life.

“For multiple possible reasons, the mother who learns of this abuse often remains faithful to her partner at the expense of the child.”

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