A follow up to this story.
Many people in PM's and even in comments noted a resemblance between the antagonist family in this story and a reality show family quite popular at the time of publication. While I maintain to this day that I did not base this story on one particular family but rather built a family based on Dominionist and Quiverfull beliefs and common practices. The reality show family in question follows those beliefs and practices, and are considered one of the poster families for both movements, but are not the entire basis for this story. That said, those who noticed the resemblance criticized me for tearing down a good, loving, wholesome Christian family. They insisted that sexual abuse could not happen in such a family, and if by chance it did happen the it would be dealt with swiftly and not covered up.
i wanted my critics to be right.
While I cannot post a link to the news reports in question here I will have a link with this follow up note on the AO3 copy of this story. You can find the link to my AO3 account in my profile.
