1st Edition

Mothers Surviving Child Sexual Abuse

By Carol-Ann Hooper Copyright 1992
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

Despite increased recognition of the high incidence of child sexual abuse, little attention has so far been paid to the women on whom children primarily depend for care adn protection - their mothers. Informed by theory and research on other situations involving loss, secrecy and moral dilemmas, as well as the rapidly accumulating knowledge of child sexual abuse, Mothers Surviving Child Sexual... Read more
Chapter 1 Child sexual abuse and mothers; Chapter 2 The study; Chapter 3 Loss; Chapter 4 Finding out; Chapter 5 Working it out; Chapter 6 Help-seeking decisions and experience of informal help; Chapter 7 Statutory help and experience of intervention; Chapter 8 Conclusions;

Biography

Carol-Ann Hooper is Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of York.