Designed to show you how emerging and established methodologies can advance the understanding of families and direct social change, The Methods and Methodologies of Qualitative Family Research is an important step in assessing the development, progress, and contributions of qualitative inquiry.

This book is for people who want to understand child sexual abuse in new ways. Based on interviews, the book shows what child sexual abuse means to child and adult survivors, perpetrators, and mothers of survivors. These first person stories make this book different from most others on child sexual abuse. Because of the first person stories, this book can be difficult to read. Yet, these stories show what children experience when they have been sexually abused. Adults are helpful to children when they can handle the harsh experiences that children have had. Effective responses to child sexual...