The booklet discusses ways that children have disclosed incest, common reactions of mothers to the disclosure, and helpful coping mechanisms mothers can use during this stressful time. After listing some of the needs of mothers following disclosure, suggestions are offered for taking time to meet personal needs, keeping a record, and finding support. Particular suggestions are oriented toward the battered woman, the lesbian mother, and the mother of a male child victim. Following a chapter on reporting child sexual abuse, other parenting issues discussed include whether it was the child's fault, whether the child needs counseling, jealously toward the daughter, mother-child relations, the effect of incest on other children, and various consequences of the incest. Other issues given major attention in the booklet are incest-related cultural issues faced by mothers of a racial minority; common religious issues associated with incest; and the causes, dynamics, and remedies for incest. 7 suggested readings and a directory of incest services in the United States.