Kategoria BISAC: Family & Relationships >> Abuse - Child Abuse

Understanding Child Abuse is the first book to look at women whose partners are child sex offenders. Much of the book is devoted to the voices of the women themselves, telling their stories and how they feel about the situations in which they found themselves, how they coped, and how they remade their lives and those of their families. They describe what they learned from their experience and how it changed them.

Such experience is largely overlooked by researchers, agencies and policy makers and this book throws unique light on this neglected area. The chapters cover:

Description

This novel, Wood's second to date, explores the interplay between relationships, and the role family plays on your Psyche; which was a name associated with wings. This book follows the passions of two people who through their daughter are drawn towards flight from The Chrysalis Time, a period of stasis, shame and dormant anxiety. The book is set in the dark ages, in an ivory tower of both abuse and security.

About the Author

Matthew Woods has recently achieved a degree in Aeronautics previous to which Matthew followed the established pattern of establishment drop-out....

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