Excellent point. The triggering abuse or seduction doesn't have to come from a parent.
Brown is the transgender college of choice (whatever it means to be transgendered). My son's former girlfriend is there. It was a very bad relationship. She was a superliberal and went ballistic if anyone criticized someone who was gay. She was a strong athlete and not particularly feminine. My husband always suspected that she was a latent lesbian and suspected that once she got to Brown that she would have an announcement to make. I understand from other kids she's written that none of the guys there are interested in her, but I can't imagine what the dating scene is like at a school where one's sexual identity can be so fluid.