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Is your daughter in danger? One in three girls will be in a controlling, abusive dating relationship before she graduates from high school -- from verbal or emotional abuse to sexual abuse or physical battering. Many young women -- and their parents -- aren't even aware of the indications of a potentially abusive relationship. What's most alarming is that these warning signs are also some of the behaviors that girls find most flattering: a boy pages...
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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...
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How much is too much? Aniya, is the daughter of a crack addict. Her strength is repeatedly, challenged by the most traumatic of circumstances. At age 15, she is, raped by her mother's boyfriend. When she discovers she is pregnant, she faces agonizing uncertainty: Is the father of her baby a rapist or the boyfriend she has recently, become intimate with?
After her boyfriend leaves for college, her mother enrolls in a drug rehabilitation program, and...
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Fans of Go Ask Alice will devour Dear Nobody, a real teen's diary, so raw and so edgy that its authenticity rings off every page. They say that high school is supposed to be the best time of your life. But what if that's just not true? More than anything, Mary Rose wants to fit in. To be loved. And she'll do whatever it takes to make that happen. Even if it costs her her life. Told through the raw and unflinching diary entries of a real teen, Mary...
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One Friday night, Robin Terry made a decision that forever changed her life. Pregnant and scared at fifteen years old, she braved the challenge of becoming a single mother. Raised in a middle-class family from West Point, Mississippi, Robin's pregnancy was a shock and disappointment to her family. Although she could have embraced failure, quitting wasn't an option. Carrying the hurt and betrayal she faced from rejection and the need for validation,...
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Girl's Voices are UnheardParents care about their family image, they could not stand up against their family members no matter how much their daughter gets hurt. Their voices remain unheard. How can we expect for the society to hear?
Harassment and abusive patterns are different with each girl and woman. Sometimes it is far deeper, normal human beings could not imagine.
What we are doing as men, women, boys and girls for those victims when it all...
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In the 1970s, Annie Chappell dreams of a homesteading life, a life like the one depicted in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods, where the world is uncomplicated. If she can get to that place, she thinks, the trouble she faces at home, alcohol use, sexual abuse, and the sorrows of modern-day issues, will disappear. Home in Denver during a break from boarding school in the spring of 1973, she meets Bill, a mountain man Vietnam vet...
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