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Message: [QUOTE="Cheriehoop, post: 75362, member: 127"] No it was never okay but I do agree that it was handled and considered differently. My grandfather was a police officer back when and he impressed on my mother who hounded us constantly about "too friendly men". She said my grandfather saw men who sexually abused their own children and were supposedly pillars of the community(judges, teachers, doctors, successful businessmen etc). He said psychiatrists, the justice system didn't know what to do with them because putting them in jail punished their families (remember not many dual income families back then) and the prisons didn't know what to do with them because they created issues for the penal system being that they were easy targets for fatal violence. For example, if a "community asset" abuser lived on the northside then they were required to move to the southside until some psychiatrist or social worker deemed them worthy to return home etc. If there was physical injury with a child then the issue was escalated. They took professional's advice and back then it was treated as more of a deviant illness than a crime and the perpetrators stand in the community was considered when dealing with it.(they were thought of as "curable "abusers") They even had "sex hospitals" or parts of hospitals to treat them. My grandfather was really worried that the public didn't know they were living amongst deviants and scared my mother to death (thus successive generations) to constantly be wary. Unfortunately he said there were many families who had what they then called a "funny uncle". Anyone ever listen to the rock opera Tommy by the Who? Victims rights weren't a consideration and back then most victims and their families felt humiliated not wanting anything made public either. Different world. The good old days weren't always better. No excuse for Paterno just because he's gotten to be 84 and remembers those days. [/QUOTE]

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