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Secrets Not Meant to be Kept
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Secrets Not Meant to be Kept is a 1987 young adult novel by Gloria D. Miklowitz. In this novel, seventeen-year-old Adrienne "Adri" Meyer is experiencing angst over problems being close to her boyfriend, Ryan O'Connor, as well as disturbing flashbacks, many of which involve a rabbit. Meanwhile, her sister, Becky, aged three, is undergoing a marked personality change: acting out destructively, having severe nightmares, and expressing gruesome ideas. Everything comes to a head when, with Ryan's help, Adri realizes that she was molested at Treehouse — the same preschool/daycare center her sister is currently attending.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Written at the height of the day-care sex-abuse hysteria, which, for the most part, has since been discredited, this book addresses difficult subject matter, including a pattern of institutionalized child sexual abuse dating back nearly twenty years, with the aim of educating readers about the warning signs of such abuse and the importance of getting help.This book can be borrowed from the Internet Archive with a free account. | |
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Adult Fear: The premise of the book, that a preschool that has operated for nearly twenty years is secretly devoted to child molestation and child pornography. For Adri, despite being seventeen, realizing that she has been molested, that her sister is probably being molested, and having her concerns dismissed out of hand. | |
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Adults Are Useless: Adri and Becky's parents are probably a textbook case of how NOT to respond to one's child's disclosures that they may have been molested. They dismiss Adri's angst, and later, disclosures, out of hand and treat her like a fractious child for trying to look out for her younger sister. Only when confronted with a tape-recorded admission from their three-year-old daughter regarding such abuse, do they recognize the true horror of the situation.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); }) | |
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The '80s: Evident from the then-current day-care sex abuse hysteria treated as fact in this story as well as references to the Soviet Union. | |
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