Alice Munro Stuck By Her Child Molester, Like So Many Mothers

Munro’s dirty little secret is tremendously disappointing: That she Stood By Her Man when she learned how her husband had molested her daughter (his stepdaughter). In the time-honored fashion of juvenile incest victims, Andrea now-Skinner didn’t break the silence until 1992, at age 25, when she finally told her mother.

It is, unfortunately, an all-too-common story. Mothers collaborating with sexual perpetrators.