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• Beating the Devil Out of Them: Corporal Punishment in American Families
  by Murray A. Straus, Denise A. Donnelly

• Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents
  Text provides practical, comprehensive guidelines for promoting and improving the health and well-being of children. Arranged according to stages of development, text contains information on developmental surveillance and milestones, physical exams, screening procedures, and immunization recommendations. Full-color format. Wire-spiral binding.

• Child Pornography and Sex Rings
  by Ann Wohlbert Burgess

• Recovered Memories of Child Sexual Abuse: Psychological, Social, and Legal Perspectives on a Contemporary Mental Health Controversy (American Series in Behavioral Science and Law)
  by Sheila Taub
  The media typically portray the controversy over recovered memories as a battle between two camps, one claiming that all recovered memories are true and the other claiming that all are false. This book attempts to present a more balanced view of seven scientists, clinicians, and scholars who have studied the controversial issue of recovered memories of sexual abuse from a variety of perspectives.

• Children Held Hostage: Dealing With Programmed and Brainwashed Children
  by Stanley S. Clawar, Brynne Valerie Rivlin

• The Cuddlers
  by Stacy Towle Morgan

• Discipline Without Shouting or Spanking: Practical Solutions to the Most Common Preschool Behavior Problems
  by Jerry Wyckoff, Barbara C. Unell, Barbara C. Undell
  YOU CAN HANDLE YOUR CHILD'S BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS WITHOUT SHOUTING OR SPANKING
  Discipline Without Shouting or Spanking offers effective, practical, nonviolent options for correcting the most common behavior problems of preschoolers.

• Family Violence: How to Recognize and Survive It
  by Janice E. Rench

• Fateful Choices: Healthy Youth for the 21st Century
  by Fred M. Hechinger, Eric Foner

• Our Baby: The First Year: Feeding, Bathing, and Diapering, Watching Your Baby Develop and Grow, What to Do When You Baby Gets Sick
  by Dagmar Von Cramm, Dagmar Von Cramm, Eberhard, Md. Schmidt, Mark A., Md. Goldstein
  Written especially for new moms, dads, and parents-to-be, this handsome and informative book offers information on everything babies need during their first 12 months. There is advice on infant growth and development, breast and bottle feeding, promoting healthy sleep habits, introducing new foods, and being prepared for emergencies.

• Family Violence: How to Recognize and Survive It
  by Janice E. Rench

• Getting Organized for Your New Baby: A Checklist and Planning Guide for Busy Parents-To-Be
  by Maureen Bard
  WITH THIS BOOK, WHEN YOUR BABY IS READY TO COME -- YOU'LL BE READY TO GO
  Everything you'll need to prepare you for baby is here: checklists, how-to hints, forms, charts, and bibliographies to help you get scheduled, budgeted, and prioritized. Getting Organized for Your New Baby has the latest information to help plan for your bundle of joy. This book will remove your worries over missing important details.

• Speak
  by Laurie Halse Anderson
  Laurie Halse Anderson's first novel is a stunning and sympathetic tribute to the teenage outcast. The triumphant ending, in which Melinda finds her voice and loudly confronts her rapist, is cause for cheering (while many readers might also shed a tear or two). After reading Speak, it will be hard for any teen to look at the class scapegoat again without a measure of compassion and understanding for that person--who may be screaming beneath the silence. (Ages 13 and older)

• The Right Touch: A Read-Aloud Story to Help Prevent Child Sexual Abuse
  by Sandy Kleven, Jody Bergsma
  Giving caregivers a gentle, thoughtful tool to help prevent child sexual abuse, "The Right Touch" revolves around Jimmy, whose mother gently explains how to protect himself from improper touching.

• The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
  by Ellen Bass, Laura Davis
  The Courage to Heal is an inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and encouragement to every woman who, was sexually abused as a child -- and those who care about her. Although the effects of child sexual abuse are long-term and severe, healing is possible. The authors weave personal experience with professional knowledge to show the reader how she can come to terms with her past while moving powerfully into the future.

• Beginning to Heal: A First Book for Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
  by Ellen Bass, Laura Davis
  A guide to healing from childhood sexual abuse includes words of inspiration, explanations of each stage of the healing journey, practical ideas, and first-person accounts. For all women just beginning to heal from child sexual abuse, an introduction to the healing process based on the groundbreaking and national best-selling classic The Courage to Heal.

• The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
  by Gavin De Becker
  Each hour, 75 women are raped in the United States, and every few seconds, a woman is beaten. Each day, 400 Americans suffer shooting injuries, and another 1,100 face criminals armed with guns. Author Gavin de Becker says victims of violent behavior usually feel a sense of fear before any threat or violence takes place. They may distrust the fear, or it may impel them to some action that saves their lives.

• Keeping the Baby Alive till Your Wife Gets Home
  by Walter Roark
  Prologue: The Male Misconception After Conception
  1. Home from the Hospital (a Star is Born)
  2. Poopies: a Sticky Situation, Top to Bottom
  3. Feeding a Face Only a Father Could Love
  4. Propagating Toys or Things That Go Hump in the Night
  5. Infant Tyranny—a Devil of a Dilemma
  6. Day Care Litters and Baby Sitter Jitters
  7. Secrets to Avoiding Infant Abuse
  8. First Steps/First Words: The Leaning Tower of Babble
  9. Fun and Games for Fathers and Other Fools

• Silently Seduced: When Parents Make Their Children Partners: Understanding Covert Incest
  by Kenneth M. Adams
  When a parent's love for a child is more expecting than giving, more jealous than trusting, the child can become trapped in a "psychological marriage" with the parent, becoming a victim of covert incest. Identification of this problem is often difficult, for the victim often feels idealized and privileged rather than abused. Dr. Adams provides a framework for beginning a process of recovery.

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