What you should know about child abuse:   Booklet # 1

Introduction:

 It has been my privilege over the past several

years to speak to public and secondary students

 in our schools on the subject of child abuse.

In every school I have left copies of my book,

“Child of Woe” for the school libraries so that

students may read it and understand that there

is hope for victims of abuse.

My message to students who have been abused is,

you must deal with it now—if you don’t,

you will face it later because it will effect every

relationship in your life.

I also emphasis that if they have a friend that

they know has been abused they should be a

real friend and offer to go with them to talk

to a guidance counselor, teacher, clergyman

or another trusted person in the community

so that they start dealing with their abusive past.

I have gathered the materials in this booklet

together from a number of sources and out of

my own experiences as a survivor of child abuse

to help make concerned people more aware of

the part you can play in befriending society’s

victims of abuse.

Child abuse is everyone’s problem.

Let us do all that we can do to prevent

it and help those who have experienced it.  

Booklet # 1 – Table of content

Reading the signs:

• Types of abuse

• Behavioral Indicators

• List of 20 indicators

Parenting the Key:

• Parental signs of abuse

• List of parental putdowns

• What 5 kinds of parenting produces in a child’s life