Incest

Ok I'm a high school senior doing a reasearch paper on the effects incest has on a child's behavioral pattern and I was wondering if someone could help me out. Here's my question: What are some of the effects of incest on children from birth to the age of around 16 or 17? Are rudeness, inobedience, a destructive and an nruly attitude symptoms of incest between mother and father who are brother and sister?  Thank You.

[Kevin Kennedy, Ph.D.]

No, not in any direct way. The symptoms you list can be the result of many different factors. By themselves one would not tend to think of incest as the cause. This is not to say that a person who is the victim of incest might not display those symptoms, but the symptoms are not indicators of incest.