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In 1974, at the age of 14, I was abducted, beaten and raped in my hometown of Lincoln, Rhode Island by a recidivist, pedophile predator. He was arrested and indicted but never went to trial. He never went to trial because he was brutally beaten to death in the streets of Providence before his court date. Thirty-eight years after his murder, no one has ever been charged with the crime. Men in My Town is my personal story. It's a gripping suspense novel with a storyline that includes characters based on real people, real places and real events. It's a story about men in my neighborhood, men who watched over me during the time between my assault and my assailant's murder.

In this book, Selena, You're Beautiful! author Stanley G. Buford deals effectively with the subject of conflict within a family brought about by a dirty little secret. The main character, Selena, fights back to win her dignity, confidence and self-respect. This book is a great way to introduce children and young adults to the degradation and humiliation of child abuse within a family structure.

When the justice system fails her daughter, a courageous mother takes matters into her own hands. In a wrenching race against time, the safety of one child is entangled in bottled-up family dynamics, court theatrics, media frenzy, and the political machine.

If your kids aren’t learning about sex from you, what are they learning about sex, and who is teaching them? Having "the talk" with your child does not have to be a terrifying and awkward event. Armed with The Sex-Wise Parent, Dr. Janet Rosenzweig’s groundbreaking book, you may find you never have to have "the talk". Dr. Rosenzweig shows you how you can help protect your children from sexual abuse, trauma, and bullying through your everyday interaction with them.

What do you do when you see children whose lives are so bad it breaks your heart? One woman took a risk. What she saw was none of her business. But to love...was her business. From the author of a Top-100 Free eBook for Kindle, "Killing of Train-Man Brown" and "The Christmas Mirror: Santa's Last Letter to a Wonderful Child" (number-one in two categories in both the US and UK).

This is a story of survival. It is a story of hope. Niamh was raped inside a wardrobe by the father of a school friend when she was just nine-years-old. An Irish catholic, growing up in Dublin, the nuns called her a Whore of Babylon because she was left-handed. And so began a life of abuse. Niamh is a woman who copes, who gets on with things and who knows how to rise above her past - that is until it resurfaces and becomes an obstacle to the happiness she knows she deserves.

Nina Ziegler wird als kleines Mädchen jahrelang von ihrem Stiefvater misshandelt und missbraucht. Die Mutter weiß von den erschütternden Demütigungen. Schlimmer noch: Sie ist aktiv daran beteiligt. Als Nina neun Jahre alt ist, entdeckt ihr leiblicher Vater die blauen Striemen an ihrem Körper und erstreitet sich das Sorgerecht. Doch damit ist die Leidensgeschichte von Nina noch lange nicht vorbei. Erst viele Jahre später verliert sie ihre Angst vor anderen Menschen und beginnt, um ein glückliches Leben zu kämpfen. Ein Schicksalsbericht, erschütternd und doch voller Hoffnung.

Vor 10 Jahren erschien dieses Buch und wurde zum "Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo" der Handygeneration. Drogenstrich, Missbrauch, Leben in einer Parallelwelt zu der behaglichen bürgerlichen. Was uns Natascha zu erzählen hat, sollte niemanden ungerührt lassen. Gerade volljährig geworden, erzählt die Autorin von ihrer Kindheit im Heim, von den ersten Drogen mit zwölf und dem Drogenstrich, dem harten Leben zwischen Freiern, Zuhältern, Dealern und der Schule. Ungeschönt, unerbittlich ehrlich zeigt sie uns, wie das Leben in Deutschland auch aussehen kann, fernab von Behaglichkeit und Familie.

On a winter morning in 1990, Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota picked up the Bismarck Tribune. On the front page, a small girl gazed into the distance, shedding a tear. The headline: Foster home children beaten - and nobody's helping. Dorgan, who had been working with American Indian tribes to secure resources, was distressed. He flew to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation to meet with five-year-old Tamara and her grandfather. They became friends. Then she disappeared. And he would search for her for decades until they finally found each other again.

This book is intended to transform your tears to champagne. The author understands that tears are bitter and salty, but with a change of attitude and positive outlook on life one can change the bitter tears to champagne.

Exposure to pornography at a very young age and sexual abuse when I was 14 years old made my life hell. Quite frankly, it ruined my whole life. I lived with daily battles that created a war within my soul. This torment lasted until I was 40 years old. I could no longer live with the trauma, the pain, and suffering emanating from my childhood events. I needed help. Just like many adults and children do too.

México ocupa el primer lugar mundial en abuso sexual infantil. Y cuando éste es perpetrado por quienes deberían dar guía y consuelo, la infamia adquiere proporciones de estruendo. Con testimonios de víctimas, filósofos, teólogos y otros expertos, Depredadores sagrados ofrece el mejor análisis que se haya hecho de la pederastia clerical en nuestro país. Esta obra, es un viaje a través del dolor, la iniquidad y las repercusiones personales y sociales. Pero también de la resistencia, la solidaridad y la denuncia.

The Florida Industrial School for Boys, which in later years was Dozier School for Boys existed for over a century in the panhandle town of Marianna. Boys from throughout the state went there to be reformed. Early on, some residents were orphans as young as five-years-old who were placed in custodial care.

This is a story of how one little girl, at the age of five, became boisterous and bold in the face of abuse. She stood up against it and was determined that she would win over it. It's a story of how her connection with God gave her the strength that she would need to be a survivor and a conqueror.

Valiant Heart is the story of a young girl name Cece who must overcome sexual molestation and physical abuse at a young age from family members she trusts. As Cece navigates through her childhood, she’s impacted by bullying, poverty, abuse, and alienation from her parents. This cycle of abuse forces Cece to make adult decisions before she has the mental capacity to do so.

Eine wahre Geschichte über Gewalt und Missbrauch in der eigenen Familie. Manchen Menschen sollte man einfach keine Kinder anvertrauen... Zur Haussklavin degradiert, später Ersatzmutter für meine fünfzehn Jahre jüngere Schwester – mein Leidensweg ist lang und qualvoll. Meine Geschichte muss an die Öffentlichkeit, damit möglichst viele erfahren, was nicht nur mir, sondern gleichzeitig vielen anderen angetan wurde. Lasst uns nicht länger schweigen. Ich bin Jasmin und dies ist meine Geschichte.

This is a personal story of a young woman who was the victim of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse from her mother; it also includes stories from several other survivors. This listen is also a source book for teachers and professionals who deal daily with abuse victims. Child Abuse: A Guide for Teachers and Professionals is from a book with the same title, printed in1983. The stories and lesson plans written then are still pertinent to today's trauma with battered children.

Las autores derriban tabúes y falsas creencias que usualmente acompañan al contexto del abuso infantil, producto de prejuicios sociales que minimizan el derecho de las víctimas a manifestarse y a redirigir su camino hacia una vida digna.

“Your father is a sociopath.” Her therapist’s words reveal the awful truth. But they also offer Eva the key to breaking free. Convinced that every negative situation—even childhood sexual abuse at the hands of her brother and others—results directly from her choices, Eva rejects any suggestion that she’s a victim of trauma. Her narcissist father has trained her to embrace this mindset as he controls her every decision, including who she marries—a man just like him.

This is a story of how I, a victim of physical, emotional, and sexual child abuse, grew to have a wonderfully beautiful life. This is a story of hope. I grew up with an angry, manipulative, controlling, alcoholic father. When I was 11, my mother divorced him. Though we were free from our daily nightmare, we were not free from the damage he inflicted.