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Saving Beauty from the Beast

How to Protect Your Daughter from an Unhealthy Relationship

By: Vicki Crompton,Ellen Zelda Kessner

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Saving Beauty from the Beast

How to Protect Your Daughter from an Unhealthy Relationship

By: Vicki Crompton,Ellen Zelda Kessner

Dating violence affects a huge number of teenage girls -- one in three girls between the ages of ten and eighteen reports having been assaulted by a boyfriend -- and can run the gamut from possessiveness to stalking to outright physical abuse. Often it is the girls with the highest selfesteem, those who believe they are in control of their lives and can bring out the best in their boyfriends, who find themselves in the grip of a relationship in which the tables have been turned. This essential and timely book incorporates the insights and advice of experts in the fields of education, adolescent psychology, criminal justice, threat assessment, and sociology. Authors Crompton and Kessner also include the voices of teenagers and parents to provide an in-depth portrait of the dynamics of controlling behavior.

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210

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Little, Brown

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ISBN 10

031603004X

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9780316030045

After the Violence

Seeking My Daughter, Myself, and the Child She Left Behind

By: Ellen Zelda Kessner

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After the Violence

Seeking My Daughter, Myself, and the Child She Left Behind

By: Ellen Zelda Kessner

A young family-dad, mom, baby-are gunned down in their home by a "friend." Dad and baby survive, but the mom does not. Her mom searches for the truth of her daughter's life and murder, while desperately trying to bond with her wounded grandchild. This memoir is both mystery (diamonds, threats, betrayal) and love story: one woman's deliberate re-incarnation of her daughter for her grandchild who would never know her mom. From the Reviews of SAVING BEAUTY FROM THE BEAST: "Who can better understand the rage that erupts and the pain that perseveres in the aftermath of murder than a mother who lost her daughter to male violence? A brave and compassionate account. -Dominick Dunne " an excellent guide as well as a memoir from the heart. Saving Beauty is both heart-wrenching and healing. Highly recommended." -Library Journal, 2003 Advance Praise for AFTER THE VIOLENCE: "This mom's affecting portrait of her long-gone daughter relates the emotional devastation that murder inflicts on an entire family through the generations. Incredibly moving in its honesty and inspiration." -June Ginty, Trustee on Board of the National Organization of Parents of Murdered Children

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