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

A teenage girl breaking free. A cunning classmate on the prowl. Can she recover after they collide?

Orphaned as a child, fourteen-year-old Laura finally rebels against her abusive guardian. No longer willing to tolerate the violent tirades and imprisoning restrictions at home, Laura lives on dreams, rock 'n' roll, and kisses in moonlight. She believes whatever comes next can't be worse than what she's already endured.

Her hope for a normal life is ripped away when a predator reels her in. With her heart shattered and her confidence destroyed, Laura plunges...

Once upon a time, when I was a little girl, I was tucked warm and safe in my bed with a loving family to protect me. In the blink of an eye it all changed before my pretty baby blues. The grim reality of a mentally ill mother and a dying brother had become my nightmare. The reality that ripped my family apart and sent my distraught father running, leaving me to deal with my mother's mania.

Left alone with my psychotic mother, I was forced to deal with the horrors that lay before me. I was a scared and confused little girl that had to learn how to survive many tragedies and overcome...

When Kathy is six years old, her father rapes and abuses her for the first time. Many thoughts and emotions run through Kathy's head as her father brutalizes her well into her teen years. Yet Kathy is paralyzed with fear and never speaks of the mistreatment.

In Passages of Betrayal, her thoughts are laid onto the pages as Kathy wishes she could have spoken them over fifty years ago: "At twelve years old, I am aware of an emptiness inside of me, of the loneliness that surrounds me, of the confusion that engulfs me." Kathy's only hope of surviving the hell she lives in is to...

PTSD: Raw and Real is a reflection of my struggles with being a victim of child sexual abuse and the process of coming to terms with how these years of abuse have impacted my life.
My life with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been a fragmented and disjointed existence with holes, blockades, and landmines. These unseen obstacles created emotional traps, blockades, and explosions at random intervals regardless of my surroundings. I existed for many years riddled with fear, anger, doubt, shame, self-loathing, despair, and loneliness. I tried to run, hide, escape, and...

This autobiography is about my life and the humble words in this book will reflect many stories of domestic violence, abuse of all kinds, sadness, major illnesses, family tragedies, and, most important, how to survive anything that comes your way. I am just a guy who grew up under adverse situations and worked hard to heal and grow along the way. During the manuscript submission phase, Page publishing asked me if I thought readers would enjoy the book and my answer was, “I hope readers are inspired by this book. I have a simple message that is best served when read at the end of your...

Have you been abused, rejected or abandoned? Have you ever felt that you 

wanted to die? Do you feel you will never get over what has happened to you?

In her book Sing O Barren, Lisa Harris-Corbitt who overcame abuse, shares 

her deeply personal story of being sexually and physically abused by her father, 

hated and emotionally abused by her mother, and repeatedly having toxic 

relationships with abusive men. Lisa tells how she overcame years of abuse 

by finding God’s love and purpose for her life. Lisa’s...

Although the names have been changed in this stirring memoir, the author relives his painful childhood, which was filled with the worst type of abuse a child could live through.

Lance Parker survived physical abuse, mental abuse, sexual abuse, as well as emotional abuse.

He tells how to recognize the changes abused children could go through over a short period of time. He also shows how you can help a child being abused.

Worst of all, these children suffer at the hands of those who are supposed to protect them.

Don’t let another day go by without reading the...

He was our abusive father.
We were just children.
No one could know.

Heidi was 18 when she read her little sister Chloe's diary, and discovered that they shared a terrible secret: they had both been abused by their father. After years of fear and isolation, Heidi knew she had to go to the police.

For a long time, Chloe resented Heidi for forcing her to disclose what had happened when she wasn't ready, while their brother, Tom, couldn't understand how he had so misjudged his father, and at first he didn't believe their tale. The truth threatened to...

Panic was rising in her throat and the smell of gunpowder was burning her nostrils. Doors opening and closing. Burst of light. Distant shouts. Blinding pain flashing through her head. The child next to her screaming. She reached to comfort the child and her arms fell limp. Waves of terror rolled over her as she realized that she couldn't move, but the fear was swimming upstream against the inner pain that threatened to drown her. Somebody help me.......

Janice and her children broke away from suffering through years of abuse, only to find that the nightmare wasn't over, it...

1 in 6 males will be sexually abused in their lifetime. This fact is often ignored or not believed.

Heroes, Villains, and Healing is a guide to help male survivors of childhood sexual abuse understand and heal from the trauma of their past using DC Comic Book superheroes and villains.

This helpful book is divided into three parts. The first is “Heroes,” which explains how some coping strategies of male survivors are similar to the archetypes of such DC superheroes as Superman, Batman, and the Flash.

The second part, “Villains,” examines...

This book is about "child labor exploitation." The book argues that mining work is one of the worst forms of child labor because the working conditions in the mines are harmful to the health, safety, education, and development of child miners. It also contends that a combination of factors drives children to work in the artisanal mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). These variables include poverty; adult unemployment; lack of educational opportunities; sociocultural conditions; lack of law enforcement; and globalization with its high demand for mined minerals and cheap...