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Abused from the age of eight by her older brother and then her step-father, Maureen Wood quickly became numb to the constant suffering. But Maureen’s world crumbled when her own mother started to abuse her too. A Family Secret is the harrowing true story of how one little girl survived sickening abuse by the people who should have loved her most and how an innocent baby finally saved her.

When foster carer Cathy Glass is asked to foster Darcy-May, a two-day-old baby, she is very concerned. The baby is coming to her straight from the hospital and will have no contact with her teenage mother, Haylea. Even more worrying, she will be brought to Cathy with a police escort, as it’s vital her extended family don't know where she is.

It’s a freezing winter’s night in 1954. A baby boy, a few hours old, is left by his mother, wrapped in nothing but two sheets of newspaper and hidden amongst the undergrowth by a canal bank. An hour later, a late-shift postman is walking wearily home when he hears a faint cry. He finds the newspaper parcel and discovers the newborn, white-cold and whimpering, inside. After being rushed to hospital and against all odds, the baby survives. He’s baptised by the hospital chaplain as Richard.

Endlich wieder ausschlafen! Schlaf ist in der gesamten menschlichen Entwicklung sehr wichtig, damit es uns gutgeht. Dieses umfassende Schlafhörbuch für alle Altersstufen vom Neugeborenen bis zu Teenagern und Eltern beantwortet alle wichtigen Fragen rund um den Schlaf: Ab wann können und sollen Kinder in ihrem eigenen Bett schlafen? Welche Einschlafbegleitung passt für Babys, welche für Kleinkinder? Brauchen alle Kinder einen Mittagsschlaf? Wie verändert sich das Schlafverhalten in den späteren Jahren bis zur Pubertät und welche Rolle spielen dabei die sozialen Medien?

Jesse-Ray Lewis, 19, enters a West Virginia "safe house" with few possessions beyond the kerchiefs that identify him as a gang member. An aged-out foster child, he lands in Bluefield, where a charity gives him food. What follows is the personal, dramatic story of two people who intervene in the life of a homeless, drug-abusing teen with a background of violence and neglect.