Understanding Adults Who Failed to Protect

This is a difficult and painful issue for children who were not only sexually violated but who were either consciously invisible to non-offending parents or who had parents who failed to protect, consciously or not.
It’s a hard issue for many of us to wrap our heads around and can cause as much and sometimes more pain than the acts of sexual abuse (although I would argue that they are pretty intertwined for a
child) that it’s pretty hard to tease out. If you are wondering about this issue, struggling to get over or understand a non-offending family member’s role in abuse this has some good information.

Nothing earth shattering in terms of insights but a good overview.

https://1in6.org/men/get-information/online-readings/others-who-were-involved-or-not/why-do-adults-fail-to-protect-children-from-sexual-abuse-or-exploitation/