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Have you experienced verbal, emotional abuse? Is your behavior looking like your upbringing? Are you interested in exploring incidents from your past to improve your self-image?Follow the author as she walks through her life, overcoming her mother's comments and actions beginning with her birth.The lived shared examples are designed for you to discover yourself through your reflection after reading each story.Your family of origin is the beginning of where your personality started and has developed into who you are today. By looking into your past history of how you were brought up, you will discover how and why you respond or react to specific circumstances. For moms, dads and grandparents too, examine how you communicate with your children's grandchildren or maybe even great-grandchildren. Your actions, love, and attitudes will be how they will relate to their children in the future and sometimes even to you. Teachers can benefit by not only observing their students but by how they relate in teaching both verbally and non-verbally. You and your actions are an essential piece in the students' years and can make or break their confidence, performance, and behavior.Everyone can improve their lives and live in the positive instead of the negative many of us have lived with since we were born.Follow author, Helen Damon Hesketh, as she shares her years of experiences in these memories to assist you to have a light bulb moment in your mind of your past and aid you in developing your future.Scroll to the top of the page, select the BUY NOW button: Born Unwanted!

Experts estimate that nearly 60 percent of all U.S. pregnancies--and 81 percent of pregnancies among adolescents--are unintended. Yet the topic of preventing these unintended pregnancies has long been treated gingerly because of personal sensitivities and public controversies, especially the angry debate over abortion. Additionally, child welfare advocates long have overlooked the connection between pregnancy planning and the improved well-being of families and communities that results when children are wanted. Now, current issues--health care and welfare reform, and the new international focus on population--are drawing attention to the consequences of unintended pregnancy. In this climate The Best Intentions offers a timely exploration of family planning issues from a distinguished panel of experts. This committee sheds much-needed light on the questions and controversies surrounding unintended pregnancy. The book offers specific recommendations to put the United States on par with other developed nations in terms of contraceptive attitudes and policies, and it considers the effectiveness of over 20 pregnancy prevention programs. The Best Intentions explores problematic definitions--"unintended" versus "unwanted" versus "mistimed"--and presents data on pregnancy rates and trends. The book also summarizes the health and social consequences of unintended pregnancies, for both men and women, and for the children they bear. Why does unintended pregnancy occur? In discussions of "reasons behind the rates," the book examines Americans' ambivalence about sexuality and the many other social, cultural, religious, and economic factors that affect our approach to contraception. The committee explores the complicated web of peer pressure, life aspirations, and notions of romance that shape an individual's decisions about sex, contraception, and pregnancy. And the book looks at such practical issues as the attitudes of doctors toward birth control and the place of contraception in both health insurance and "managed care." The Best Intentions offers frank discussion, synthesis of data, and policy recommendations on one of today's most sensitive social topics. This book will be important to policymakers, health and social service personnel, foundation executives, opinion leaders, researchers, and concerned individuals. May

Forty years of misery and loneliness come to an end when Ralph uttered the words, "If you are who they say you are, keep me from doing what I am about to do!" Coming to and finding his wheels six inches from a three-hundred-foot cliff began a journey like no other Ralph had ever experienced""the journey that took him deep in the bowels of prison, dealing with the very dregs of society, the lost souls that God still loved, and being tempted to strike out by the human side and given grace by God. Ralph didn't challenge God but requested to be shown the power of the Holy Spirit, asking as a small child would ask his father. If you have the tears, read this book.