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Summary: Saving Beauty From the Beast: How to Protect Your Daughter f
Review: Crompton and Kessner provide an important book directed at the parents of teenage daughters. They speak from experience and from hearts broken by the murders of their own daughters, both victims of boyfriend abuse. Smashing many stereotypes, including the one that only girls with low self-esteem are likely to be attracted to abusers, they present multidimensional portraits of emotional, sexual, and physical abusers and victims. They also devote a significant portion of the book to outlining exactly what psychological, emotional, and social means parents can use to protect their daughters from forming unhealthy attachments and relationships. Warning signs, intervention strategies, and tips for helping your daughter to break away safely and to cope with the aftermath of abuse are also provided. Interspersed with potent commentary from both parents and daughters, this is an eye-opening guide for adults attempting to safeguard their children from teen dating violence.
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Summary: Saving Beauty from the Beast
Review: I encourage every parent of a daughter to read this book before their daughter starts dating. It details behaviors and actions to be aware of in the boys their children date -- behaviors that are initially perceived as loving and protective, but are actually controlling and manipulative, and become emotional and eventually physical abuse.
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Summary: Very helpful book. Wish we bought it sooner.
Review: I recently bought several books on abusive relationships.My husband (a very picky reader) has read many passages out loud to me from this one. It is filled with many examples of abusive relationships that are unbelievably similar to what we have seen. We almost feel as if the authors know the young man we are concerned about. The book is clearly written, provides good details and ideas on how to cope. Buy this book before your daughter gets involved with an abuser, or at least at the first signs of an abusive relationship. You want to know, as early as possible, what can be going on. The book is worth many times what it costs..
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Summary: Vicki Crompton is a powerful women of God
Review: I've know vicki for awhile now. I knew about her daughter jenny and how she was killed. But i didnt know all the in depth-things to her muder. I am the same age as jenny was when she was killed. I m taking my chances more precoiciously. now . Vicki is a wonderful person. She's been through alot .Yet all in all she has a loving heart of forgivness. God has truly blessed this woman with a heart to reach the world. Vicki- i love you . I've learned from you. thanks ...love your fellow church friend alex. WAY 2 GO VICKI!
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Summary: Stop the abuse---read this book
Review: In a 2003 "Montel Williams" show on dating violence, Vicki Crompton, co-author of Saving Beauty From The Beast, did more than plug her book, co-written with Ellen Zelda Kessner; she told the highly personal story of her daughter Jenny's murder at the hands of boyfriend Mark Smith, and offered advice to young women and parents torn apart by callous teenage boys, adolescent angst, parent-daughter conflicts, and a culture that, as the book points out, romanticizes forbidden love, taking what you want at any cost, love that hurts, and having a boyfriend.
Crompton, hand-in-hand with parenting author Kessner, has turned her daughter's shattering, unthinkable death into a brilliant, readable book that draws on real teenagers and their parents from all backgrounds, speaking in clear, intelligent voices, articulating the myriad pressures young women today face when involved in a love that hurts. Crompton and Kressner do not make light of peer pressure, or fail to note that the very rich and the very poor of today's youth are the most at risk to become abusers, or shrink from advising parents to "back off" and accept the relationship. The personal safety plan for daughters in abusive relationships, the safety plan for daughters who have left the relationship, the ingenious suggestion of a "code word" signaling danger, are useful tools. The coda of Crompton confronting Mark Smith in prison serves as a poignant reminder and incentive for all parents of teenage girls to read and share this book with their "Beautys."
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Summary: A must for every home
Review: This book is a classic, a must for every personal family library. It's a page turner, for me a chapter turner, for I leaped from one section to another quickly seeking means for protecting my children. I now feel more acutely sensitized to the problem and better able to get a grip on some of the interventions. The authors are to be congratulated and thanked for improving our competence concerning so frightening a scenario.
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Summary: A must for every home
Review: This book is a classic, a must for every personal family library. It's a page turner, for me a chapter turner, for I leaped from one section to another quickly seeking means for protecting my children. I now feel more acutely sensitized to the problem and better able to get a grip on some of the interventions. The authors are to be congratulated and thanked for improving our competence concerning so frightening a scenario.
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Summary: Very helpful book. Wish we bought it sooner.
Review: This book is very well written and full of information regarding teen dating abuse. Crompton details the experiences of several teenagers who went through abuse (verbal, emotional, and physical) while providing a firsthand account of her daughter's difficult struggle. While Crompton did provide valuable information concerning identifying and quelling one's own daughter's entrance into an abusive relationship, I wish she had detailed more on how to PREVENT one's daughter from entering an unhealthy relationship (early child rearing, parental interaction, etc.)
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Summary: a very good, informative book
Review: This book is very well written and full of information regarding teen dating abuse. Crompton details the experiences of several teenagers who went through abuse (verbal, emotional, and physical) while providing a firsthand account of her daughter's difficult struggle. While Crompton did provide valuable information concerning identifying and quelling one's own daughter's entrance into an abusive relationship, I wish she had detailed more on how to PREVENT one's daughter from entering an unhealthy relationship (early child rearing, parental interaction, etc.)
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