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...

Más de 246 millones de niños entre los 5 y los 17 años de edad se encuentran trabajando en todo el mundo y 180 millones son sometidos a las peores formas de trabajo infantil. Colombia no es la excepción, la inmersión en el mundo laboral a temprana edad es uno de los principales problemas que afecta el desarrollo integral de nuestros niños. Esta obra presenta un amplio marco de referencia sobre el trabajo infantil en America Latina y Colombia...

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...

As a child of nine, she was taken from the innocent world she had known and shoved into the dark, perverted world of her stepfather. This is a recounting of those events and how they changed her, and her life, forever.

Mae moves in with fifteen-year-old Jules' family and seems to be taking over Jules' life, but Mae's past in a nearby cult soon threatens them all. Based on a true story.

"Clancey Lang knows how to run. She's been doing it since the day she fled her abusive home to save her and her younger brother's lives. That was the same day she decided to never let herself depend on anyone else. Especially men. Though she's tempted--mighty tempted--to put her faith in her boss, ruggedly handsome Texas Ranger Colter Banks. If only he would look her way"--

A single mother discovers a scheme in her son's book to rescue a young girl from the hands of her abusive stepfather and sets out to execute the plan at any cost.

A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress leads to lifelong health problems and what we can do to break the cycle. For anyone who has faced a difficult childhood, or who cares about the millions of children who do, the innovative and acclaimed health interventions outlined in this book will represent vitally important hope for change.

There is nothing more tragically in a child's life, beyond lack of love, than the confusion of languages. To confuse the sex language with the unconditional love one - the love of father and mother - is fatal, when there is no one else around who could replace it. In this novel, the family history is repeated over generations, in a succession of physical and psychological abuse. Where does child abuse end and start? What if the abuser was also abused?...

Megan Walsh is running for her life, but only so that she can end it as she chooses and not by the hands of them. She escaped her children's home after being raped by one of her care workers only to be found by Jo, the one adult she once dared to trust. Jo learns that Meg is the victim of a Child Sexual Exploitation gang, whose tentacles reach far and wide within the police force, social care and all the way to Parliament. In a gripping race against...