family violence

This book debates the extent and nature of domestic violence and how it can be reduced.

A memoir chronicling the author's upbringing in a Philadelphia housing project in the 1960s, covering his father's erratic and emotional behavior and his own flight from the confines of his youth to follow his dreams and better his circumstances.

Eight-year-old Carrie Parker struggles to protect her younger sister Emma from the harsh realities of the impoverished life in North Carolina, using her imagination to create a fairytale world where they can escape from reality.

Eleven-year-old Charlie York's idyllic life in Sunnyside, Virginia, is shattered in 1967 when his father is killed by a shotgun blast and his mother is arrested for murder, and he becomes even more confused when his caretaker, Lacy Albert Coe, is victimized by townspeople who are offended that the elderly African-American storyteller has been left in charge of a white child.

In this story of a bear family, the mother bear seeks professional help when the father bear becomes physically abusive. A new life begins for the family once the problem is acknowledged.

Margaux, known as a "tough chick" at her Los Angeles high school, makes a connection with Danny, who, like her, struggles with the emotional impact of family violence and abuse.

True stories in various settings and situations depict child abuse and other kinds of violence between family members.

Addresses common questions teens have about family and domestic violence, including what it is, what are the different types of abuse, what the warning signs are, why family violence happens, how to break the cycle of abuse, and other related topics.

A memoir in which the author describes his childhood with an abusive escaped child killer he believed to be his father, discusses what happened when the truth finally came to light, and tells of his search for his real identity, his struggle to come to grips with his past, and the people and events that helped him transform his life from victim to victim's advocate.

Because her partner continues to abuse her, seventeen-year-old Melissa takes their young child and goes to a shelter for battered women where she begins the healing process.