contrast, a report the National Institute for Mental Health shows that vio- lence against children "appears to be de-

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creasing in America's intact families."
Christensen thinks that the "crisis" is largely the creation of certain feminists, academics, and social workers with a hid- den anti-family agenda. The very "solu-tions" they advocate-more intrusive in- vestigations, sex-abuse education in the schools-would further erode parental au-...