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1) Confessions of a Murphy's Law Child: Surviving Child Abuse, Racism, Poverty, and Trick-Ask Ideology
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Murphy's Kids. What a strange moniker. It corresponds with the so-called Murphy's Law that states if a series of things can potentially go wrong, they will. As incredible as it sounds, there are some kids who, from the day they are born until they leave this earth, encounter more than their fair share of bad luck and misfortune. It is as if a vixen were attached to their spinal cord. Most children learn to adapt, but far too many acquiesce. They become...
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Violence and abuse place their mark on many children. Jessica Nicely is no different from the thousands and perhaps millions who share tragic childhoods. How did she survive and even go on to thrive? How, with a childhood experience nearly at the top of the abuse scale, did she become resilient? Part of the answer was due to her beloved zeros. In these pages, Jessica bravely tells her story. She recounts a childhood marked by loss and punctuated by...
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Emmy's Question is a compelling story on a troublesome topic: parental alcoholism. Inspired by the diary of a young girl, the author has combined fact with fiction to present a powerful vehicle for education and healing. Endorsed by the Betty Ford Center's Children's Program prior to publication.
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As the stepchild of a State Department employee, she should have led a charmed life in exotic locations in Europe and Asia, as well as the United States. But her family hid a dark secret -- one that would affect the lovely, talented young woman's ability to form meaningful relationships long after she entered adulthood. This beautifully written novel is loosely based on author Nancy Roberts' life, and explores the effects of abuse on her as a child,...
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The story begins in the early 1950's suburbs of Houston, Texas. Mamie is a young child of four who was unwanted, afraid, abused and with nowhere to turn, learned that she had to stand alone. Her only friends were her older brother, an abused child himself, and her nanny, who begged their mother to stop beating them. The father, though he loved his children, remained passive to the end. A victim himself, the only protection he offered was a warning...
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To Survivors, I am with you. Keep your head up, find people that will stand next to you in your pain. What feels like a never-ending mess will start to get better? Healing is possible, not easy, but possible. Find your courage and RISE.
My first marriage was abusive, my first ex-husband was always cheating on me and did not respect my boundaries sexually. I became pregnant with my youngest child when I did not want to. I was going to school and working....
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FREEDOM Saoirse traces the author's life from her early years growing up impoverished in Galway, Ireland, in an emotionally limited home, into the misunderstood heaviness she carried from years-long abuse by an uncle, and the subsequent addictions and alcoholism that followed the abuse. She thought a move to America would be an escape from these secrets, but she discovered it was all coming with her anyway. In a sudden revelation, she then embarked...
8) Breaking the Cycle of Silence: Raising Awareness and Taking Action to Prevent Childhood Sexual Abuse
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The latest statistics tell us that one out of three girls and one out of six boys will be sexually abused before the age of eighteen, destroying their lives in ways we can't even imagine. We also know that 90 percent of the time, victims know their abuser.
Daniel Pearse is living proof of both these statistics. He and his brother were sent to live with a pedophile after their mother died. For nine years, Daniel suffered sexual, physical, emotional,...
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From an early age we are taught to respect and trust police. Most of us do. But today we watch the evening news or read that another policeman has molested a child, or was caught with child pornography. We begin to question our reason to trust. How is the molestation or the sexual abuse of children to be anticipated and stopped? At the age of seventy-two I believe I have found answers to the questions: who molests children, where and when, and how...
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Point Last Seen is an intensely personal work. This is a true story of one woman's odyssey through three complex issues of childhood sexual abuse, domestic violence and mental illness. All too often we hear or read horrific stories of children being abducted by pedophiles and shudder at the thought of what these innocent victims must have experienced. Rarely, if ever, do we hear how the terrifying experiences affect these victims as they journey through...
11) Broken Boy
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By any estimation, Gino Medeiros should have become a statistic.
Plunged into the broken foster care system of the 1970s at the age of five, Gino would spend the next fifteen years bouncing from one home to the next, unwanted and unloved, or so it seemed. He was convinced that he would die homeless and alone, just another life that slipped through the cracks. But one can never underestimate the power of kindness…
A coming-of-age tale first witnessed...
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A mother and daughter share their journey to forgiving and healing. As a child, she is a victim, severely trauma bonded from the experience. As adults, they both recognize they cannot change the past. They refuse to live life as a victim gripped by fear, shame, and guilt. The circumstance of child molestation happened, the thoughts and feelings about it are just a story. You are the story you tell yourself about yourself. Change the story heal yourself....
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Maxine, our protagonist, tells the tale of life in Jamaica through her child eyes. She and her older sisters Patricia and Corinne, and her baby brother Geoff are left behind in Jamaica to be raised by their grandmother, while their parents go to America to seek a better future for the family.
The story chronicles the separation of the family, and ultimately, the bonds that get broken because of the separation. Maxine takes us from a surprisingly...
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God's amazing grace lifted Wendy from the dark incestuous world of severe child abuse. The author's factual account of her journey from wounded child to warrior sharing the light and joy that comes from forgiveness and healing through Jesus Christ is emotion-packed and unforgettable. Wendy describes her five goals in writing GOOD MOURNING. 1) I want to offer hope and comfort to a generation of children, adolescents, and others who are currently the...
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"Breaking Free: When My Hero Turned Into My Abuser" is a memoir about a boy struggling through both sexual and mental harassment, how it changed him, and how it informed his growth as an adult. A successful businessman became his father figure, allowing him to live with his wife and children in a welcome escape from his childhood of poverty. Within a few years, however, he felt entrapped by the man's domineering personality and obsession with transforming...
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Dale Jackson is a Criminologist in private practice on Queensland's Gold Coast. A former Army Intelligence Analyst and Police Senior Crime Prevention Officer, his specialist fields include personal safety for women and children. Parents are the gatekeepers for child protection and training children about sexual safety and stranger danger. They can't afford to rely on anyone else. Protecting Kids Made Simple is designed to empower parents with knowledge...
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This is a book written for the average person by a parent who has witnessed the darkest side of life. It contains real world examples of adults preying on children. The author is not a doctor or psychologist, but just one man who has spent most of his life investigating crimes against children. Each of us must make ourselves aware of the Red Flags that indicate our children are, or about to be sexually assaulted. Child sexual abuse is a life altering...
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Growing up with an angry mother leaves behind not only physical, but emotional scars. For those raised by a harsh mother, who denied love as a mother should, home life was a world of dread. Childhood should not be filled with pain and fear. Mother's Fury takes readers behind the closed doors of dark secrets, acknowledges the maltreatments and encourages victims to uncover your own story-to feel worthy of love. Charles Rice was able to lose the chain...
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Pastor Sandy Wainright goes into the depths of her past, her heart and her mind to bring you a story that not many could tell. From a young child she shares the story of how sexual abuse knows no religious or social boundaries. "There is a Story Behind My Praise" is an intensely personal and specific look at this form of abuse and it's many affects over the life of one Cassandra Wainright. She explores the secret lament of the soul damaged by sexual...
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Patricia's story of abandonment and neglect has turned into a story of wholeness, joy and a blessed life! She tells her story of being raised by Christian grandparents and having to leave the safety and security of their home where she was exposed to abuse. "Where is God", she wonders and "Why doesn't he help me"? Patricia shares her childhood, her difficulty in trusting a God she couldn't see and the challenges and hardships that followed her decision...
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