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Growing up as a Martin would be impossible for this generation of youths who believe that the highest score wins the love of the parents these days. When you raise your children on chips and pizza, you'd get a boot in your ass by my father, the patriarch and cornerstone of my family, who would just sneer a, "What you looking at boy? You better learn how to cook a decent meal, or I'll teach your ass how after I retrieve my size 12's out of your hind parts, you dig?"

Most parents don’t start out or aspire to be deadbeat parents…not really. They might be jerks or psychopaths or sociopaths or narcissists or curmudgeons or psychotic or unstable or unfit or insane or ill or unhappy or ill-tempered or emotional or delusional or unrealistic. They become deadbeat parents for a myriad of reasons that we will explore in this book.

Implosion: Memoir of an Architect’s Daughter delves into the life of visionary architect Woodie Garber and the collision of forces in the turbulent 1970s that caused his family to collapse. Soon after the family’s move into Woodie’s glass house, his need to control begins to strain normal bonds; and Elizabeth’s first love, a young Black man, triggers his until-then hidden racism.

The third of a nonfiction trilogy, this intrepid memoir tracks sexual harassment and sexual abuse in the life of a veteran American journalist. It also describes the long and ultimately successful psychotherapy the author undertook to heal.

Marilyn Elaine Lundberg’s true crime memoir, Jagger’s Eyes, is a brutally honest account of how one unfortunate little girl turned to animals for love, safety, and comfort. The trauma of incest and neglect occurred behind closed doors in her Christian home and crippled her psychologically as a child. Her attacks produced PTSD, suicidal depression, chronic anxiety, panic attacks, agoraphobia, anorexia, plus more, and she was housebound for many years as an adult.

Grooming är när vuxna, oftast under falsk identitet, försöker skapa kontakt med barn på internet eller i sociala medier i syfte att utnyttja dem sexuellt. I Vad är grooming försöker psykologen Christianson och juristen Rogland att förklara hur förövarna går tillväga för att locka sina offer. Och även hur det påverkar barnen och deras framtida liv. Kunskapen om grooming är generellt sett ganska låg i Sverige och därför försöker författarna genom olika rättsfall och forskning att avslöja och synliggöra hur förövarna arbetar.

Pour des raisons culturelles, idéologiques, historiques, la France n'est pas le pays de l'enfant roi... C'est le pays de l'indifférence aux enfants martyrs. Ils sont au mieux considérés comme des adultes miniatures, au pire comme des objets dont les parents sont propriétaires, un peu comme des animaux domestiques. C'est comme si la société française n'arrivait pas à voir les maltraitances, les exactions commises sur les enfants.

This book is about the dilemma of forgiveness I had to face when my 86-year-old mom lay on her death bed. How to forgive or not forgive a family member that's dying. My real-life short story of what I chose to do. Let me give you a hint. It has something to do with relief.

From the outside, Vanya’s childhood of riding horses with her father in the solitude of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and attending flamboyant operas with her mother in the city looked idyllic. But life for Vanya was more about learning to gauge and survive her parents’ unpredictable actions - from being left to lie in her own blood-soaked diaper while her Christian Scientist mother prayed, refusing to get medical help, to watching her father writhe on his bed in the detox ward, his hands and feet tethered with leather straps.

After questioning their childhood and adolescence, Dante decides to document and discuss what they remember. The truth grows harder to swallow, as old memories bubble up.

A compassionate and accessible guide for parents whose children have experienced traumatic or life-threatening events written by one of the foremost authorities on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children and adolescents. Dr. Scheeringa understands the desperation many parents feel and explains the impact of trauma, simplifies the science into layman’s terms, debunks the myths, and provides direction on navigating the confusing maze of the mental health world to find appropriate care.

Reissued with 10% more material, this is the story of a Black man who spent 17 years on a brutal Texas prison plantation and underwent a remarkable transformation. First published in 1984, Racehoss: Big Emma’s Boy is Albert Race Sample’s tale of resilience, revelation, and redemption. With stories that had been edited out of the first edition, a foreword by Texas attorney and writer David R. Dow, and an afterword by Sample’s widow, Carol, this new edition offers a more complete picture of this extraordinary time in America’s recent past.

In this author's second book, she details her personal "Roadmap to Healing" that she discovered in order to overcome chronic depression, PTSD, agoraphobia, anxiety, night terrors, obsessive worrying, fibromyalgia, TMJ, plus more! So much devastation was heaped on her as a child due to the selfish act of sexual abuse, but her life has been transformed - and she wants to share what she has learned to help you heal.

While most kids are served home-cooked dinners and tucked in with bedtime stories at night, Mary Zoe never knows which version of her mother, Zodie, to expect. She might be dressed to the nines, rhapsodizing about a more luxurious way of life, or she might be strewn naked on the floor, slumped into unconsciousness by drugs and alcohol.

Material things are given aplenty. Money is no problem. Faith is survival. Safety and protection is lacking. For Amber Wallace, the only child of a well-to-do family, it seems as if she has it all. People from the outside envy her and want what she has. As the onlookers wish for her greener pastures, she craves for the normalcy. She might be spoiled, but it comes with a heavy price and plenty of secrets.

Zoe Zolbrod remained silent about her early childhood molestation for nearly a decade. When she finally decided to tell, she wasn't sure what to expect or what to say. Through a series of experiences - Zolbrod hitchhikes with a boyfriend from one coast to another, hangs out in a strip club in Philadelphia, meets and marries her husband, and gives birth to her children - she traces the development of her sexuality, her relationships with men, and the cultivation of her motherhood in the shadow of her childhood sexual abuse.

The lessons and pointers contained herein couldn't have come at a more appropriate time, given the steady rise of cases of bullying. As it were, bullying is a menacing problem that has been proven to cause not only physical pain and short-term anxiety, but also lifelong consequences with adverse effects on one's mental and emotional growth. This problem is exacerbated by the increasingly troubling ubiquity of cyberbullying, where the same nasty bullying behavior is carried over to an entirely new platform - the Internet.

This is a true story of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse. It will take you down the path of my life from childhood through adulthood; the ins and outs of how the abuse formed my very being. Leading me in what I look back on as...a life of self-destruction. The pain and sorrow in which I learned how to love and how to be loved. The acceptance that I was worthless, and the belief that no one would or could ever love only me. Fearing I would never find happiness, I fell into a depression.

Tommy Belanger had been born into a dysfunctional family - fed by alcohol abuse, abject poverty, and the trials and tribulations associated with living in isolation. His was a life filled with child abuse, incest, bestiality, and zoophilia. Tommy hated how those things affected him and his siblings. And he detested his father.

Know today's signals for sexual abuse. Educate yourself, your family, and those around you of how to identify suspect behavior, how to effectively intervene, the proper way to help a victim after a molest has occurred. Latest research data awareness, along with community know-how can protect the innocent from the evils of unwanted sexual contact, or worse. Actual, convicted sexual offenders contributed to this publication for accuracy.