At different stages of their lives they will be affected. Relationships with men and then when they become parents, what happened will become front and center again. When their child is born and they realize how much their child means to them, they will ask why Mom and Dad didn’t care enough that they risked me? Also there will be decisions to make to keep what happened to them, from happening to their child and that means visiting family and leaving their child ALONE with Grandma/Grandpa and Josh/Anna.
I feel for them.
These people sold their girls out for the $$$$$ they were getting from TLC. I sure hope it was worth it.
You are correct. Molestation has tentacles that reach out throughout the victim’s life, even when they have forgiven the perpetrator and moved along in life. Another difficult time can be when the victim’s daughter/daughters reach the same age the victim was when the abuse began. Forgiveness or not, the urge to protect and overprotect can go off the charts.