After the cradle falls : what child abuse is, how we respond to it, and what you can do about it /
Melissa Jonson-Reid, Brett Drake.
- New York : Oxford University P., 2018.
- xiv, 228 p. : Photo, graph.
Includes bibliographical references.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- 1. A Brief History of Child Abuse and Neglect: From Nursery Rhymes to Mary Ellen to Today. -- 2. A Crash Course in Child Protection -- 3. Good Parenting or Physical Abuse? -- 4. What Neglect is And Why it Isn't "Just Poverty" -- 5. Words Can Hurt: Emotional Abuse -- 6. Protecting Women vs. Protecting Children. Must It Be Either/Or? -- 7. Child Sexual Abuse: "Stranger Danger" or a Danger Closer to Home? -- 8. Why Didn't They Say Something? Reporters Who Don't, Children Who Don't, Children Who Can't -- 9. Resilience and Treatment -- 10. Child Protection: A Broken System? An Evil System? A System at All? Does Everyone Hate CPS? -- 11. A Fairy Tale Ending? What You Can Do & What We Can Do Together -- Appendix: Want to Read, Watch or Listen More? -- Glossary.