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Summary: If you want to really protect your children, read this book!
Review: If you believe women don't sexually, physically and emotionally molest and abuse children as often and as bad as men do, you need to read this book. With over 10 years experience and thousands of case histories gathered through M.A.S.A, Claire Reeves is going to establish herself as THE leading expert on protecting children from abuse in America today. Read how to protect your children from predator judges, incompetent court appointed therapists and children's "protective" services. Claire's seen it all and has always been there to protect our chidren. Most people still believe that women only rarely molest children. Wrong! She offers case histories of mothers, grandmothers, girlfriends and other women doing the worst things imaginable to little boys and girls, in some cases, I am sure, destroying them for life. I know this will make a lot of feminists mad, but the truth hurts. It's about time somebody had the guts to tell it like REALLY it is. Hurray for Claire Reeves!
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Summary: Buy this book, you won't regret it!
Review: Ms. Reeves has accomplished a stupendous feat in this book. She empowers the survivor of CSA and those who are trying to protect them. I am studying to be a social worker with a specialization in child abuse and I have found this book to be refreshingly practical. I have read hundreds of texts concerning this problem and I have to say that Ms. Reeves has produced a book which warns the protectors of legal pitfalls that could hurt the child you are striving to protect. I recommend this book to all advocates of abused children, especially non-abusive parents. The law system is not something to depend upon to protect your child. You need to gain as much knowledge as possible, for it is only through logic and reason that the courts will hear you. I am a survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse and I can tell you that I get quite emotional about this issue, but emotion is ignored or used to persecute the non-abusive parent within the court system. This book has caused me to buy several other books on the law system and child abuse, for I want to ensure that my words or actions will not jeapordize a trial meant to protect a child. If you have anything to do with children, buy this book.
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Summary: A must-read for anyone who regularly interacts with children
Review: Ms. Reeves has taken very difficult issues within the complex world of child sexual abuse and has made them much easier to understand. She helps us to be more aware of what signs of child abuse we should look for; more important, she explains how one should respond to such indications. This information is extremely valuable, given the current negative atmosphere in many law enforcement and court systems towards caregivers who claim that their children have been sexually abused (especially if the complainants are also in the process of divorcing accused partners.) Ms. Reeves also helps the reader to avoid common errors of judgment when attempting to size up those who interact with, or appear interested in, children. She provides valuable tips on what signs to look for, that make it easier for us to recognize and analyze certain behaviors in potential child molesters or pedophiles. I especially appreciate the way she clarifies that women are child molesters and pedophiles too. Precious little information is available to the public about female child sexual molesters; too many people still believe women don't hurt children the way some men do. Unfortunately, this kind of continued ignorance and denial enables too many female perpetrators to continue their equally grievous crimes against children, undetected and unpunished.
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Summary: A must-read for anyone who regularly interacts with children
Review: Ms. Reeves has taken very difficult issues within the complex world of child sexual abuse and has made them much easier to understand. She helps us to be more aware of what signs of child abuse we should look for; more important, she explains how one should respond to such indications. This information is extremely valuable, given the current negative atmosphere in many law enforcement and court systems towards caregivers who claim that their children have been sexually abused (especially if the complainants are also in the process of divorcing accused partners.) Ms. Reeves also helps the reader to avoid common errors of judgment when attempting to size up those who interact with, or appear interested in, children. She provides valuable tips on what signs to look for, that make it easier for us to recognize and analyze certain behaviors in potential child molesters or pedophiles. I especially appreciate the way she clarifies that women are child molesters and pedophiles too. Precious little information is available to the public about female child sexual molesters; too many people still believe women don't hurt children the way some men do. Unfortunately, this kind of continued ignorance and denial enables too many female perpetrators to continue their equally grievous crimes against children, undetected and unpunished.
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Summary: A Book For Everyone To Read
Review: Thank you for producing a book that is easy to read, easy to understand, and more importantly, addressess an issue that is clearly in need of public awareness. Your book is a great primer for those who are in dire need of information and/or are victims of childhood sexual abuse. As an attorney whose practice emphasizes the representation of victims of childhood sexual abuse, I welcome this book to my library and will gladly recommend it as necessary reading to those who want to more fully understand this national epidemic that [endangers] generation after generation.
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Summary: How society can help save the lives of our children
Review: This book deserves a long lease on life and should be studied in schools. Reeves is a no-nonsense child advocate with decades of experience both in and outside the court system. When she shoots from the hip, people listen. Readers will discover a no-nonsense approach throughout her book and won't need a PHD to understand it! Reeves describes the quagmire of the court system and social service agencies that so often fail and drop the ball. Often, with books on child abuse and especially if written in a memoir format, the author's message will involve some form of forgiveness of the perpetrator as she or he rides into the sunset 'happily ever after'. How I wish it were that simplistic. Unfortunately, the message that many of these 'Mother Teresa complex' self help books deliver looks good in print but fail to provide victims, survivors and concerned citizens with concrete help and practical guidance. Fortunately, Reeve's book delivers the right stuff.
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Summary: Hard-hitting and Right On
Review: This book exposes the many frustrations of victims and their families in reporting and convicting predators. It should be required reading for EVERY judge and prosecutor.
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Summary: Hard-hitting and Right On
Review: This book exposes the many frustrations of victims and their families in reporting and convicting predators. It should be required reading for EVERY judge and prosecutor.
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Summary: A Must For EVERYONE!!!
Review: This book tells it like it is. Nobody thinks sexual abuse will affect their world but it does. This book is a roadmap of what to expect and what you need to know if your child or someone close to you becomes a victim.
As the mother of sexually abused child I can attest that all is true and the war can be won.
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Summary: Child Advocacy At Its Best
Review: This is the everything-you-need-to-know-but-were-afraid-to-ask book about the aftereffects of incest and child sexual abuse on its victims and on society. It was written by a -- if not the -- premier advocate for sexually abused children in the U.S. Claire Reeves has translated her knowledge, passion, and dedication to making the world a safer place for children into simply written words about the complex issues surrounding sexual crimes against children. The book offers advice for parents of children who have been sexually abused, education for judges who are required to make life-or-death decisions for the victims whose cases they hear, understanding for anyone who wants to help children whose bodies and souls have been raped, and validation for adults who were deliberately traumatized ??? whether in their childhood bedrooms, religious venues, day-care centers, foster homes, or in ritually-abusing cults chanting the mantra, "If you tell, you die."
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