To the editors:
Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites »
I have very mixed feelings about suing parents for incest. I agree with the closing quote of Nina Corwin when she mentioned the percentage of women for whom ” . . . it focuses so much of their lives on the case that they don’t get around to putting their lives back in order.” In fact, my preliminary reaction to the article was, “Oh no, don’t revictimize these victims!”
Lastly, I found the article’s subjects to be contradicting in their stated motives. On the one hand they are stating ” . . . the party who willfully did this should be punished for it anyway. And the only way we have is a monetary one.” Then on the other hand they say that they are going to make the insurers of the parents responsible. How does that punish the parents?! All that will do is punish other people with an increase in homeowner’s insurance–especially if they have kids. If they truly want to punish the parents monetarily then figure out what they are worth and go for that as a maximum.
