Scared Silent
Title | Scared Silent PDF eBook |
Author | Mildred Muhammad |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 307 |
Release | 2009-10-13 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1416597107 |
Mildred Muhammad shares her story about rising up from the domestic abuse she endured from her ex-husband, John Allen Muhammad, the convicted D.C. Sniper. Mildred witnessed firsthand John’s bizarre behavior after he returned from the Gulf War, but no one—including her family, friends, and local police—took her warnings seriously. Even when John kidnapped their three children for eighteen months, changing their identities and living with them on the run in Antigua, or when he threatened to kill Mildred, her pleas for help went unfounded and she was forced to live undercover for eight months in a women’s shelter. Everyone knew John as a charming and intelligent man. No one could fathom that he posed a serious threat to Mildred, let alone the ten innocent victims he and his seventeen-year-old accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo would later kill to carry out John’s heinous plot to get custody of his and Mildred’s children...permanently. What began as a domestic case eventually victimized millions. And it has taken years for Mildred and her children to heal from the fear and psychological trauma they endured. In Scared Silent, Mildred shares her personal story to show how domestic violence devastates entire families, including the children, and hopes that what she reveals will give new insight on this national social ill.
Scared Silent
Title | Scared Silent PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Child abuse |
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Scared Silent
Title | Scared Silent PDF eBook |
Author | Bede Sheppard |
Publisher | |
Pages | 94 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Extrajudicial executions |
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Children Today
Title | Children Today PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Child welfare |
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Human Rights Watch the Philippines Sacred Silent
Title | Human Rights Watch the Philippines Sacred Silent PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Human Rights Watch |
Pages | 88 |
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Ordinary Insanity
Title | Ordinary Insanity PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Menkedick |
Publisher | Pantheon |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2020-04-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1524747785 |
A groundbreaking exposé and diagnosis of the silent epidemic of fear afflicting new mothers, and a candid, feminist deep dive into the culture, science, history, and psychology of contemporary motherhood Anxiety among mothers is a growing but largely unrecognized crisis. In the transition to motherhood and the years that follow, countless women suffer from overwhelming feelings of fear, grief, and obsession that do not fit neatly within the outmoded category of “postpartum depression.” These women soon discover that there is precious little support or time for their care, even as expectations about what mothers should do and be continue to rise. Many struggle to distinguish normal worry from crippling madness in a culture in which their anxiety is often ignored, normalized, or, most dangerously, seen as taboo. Drawing on extensive research, numerous interviews, and the raw particulars of her own experience with anxiety, writer and mother Sarah Menkedick gives us a comprehensive examination of the biology, psychology, history, and societal conditions surrounding the crushing and life-limiting fear that has become the norm for so many. Woven into the stories of women’s lives is an examination of the factors—such as the changing structure of the maternal brain, the ethically problematic ways risk is construed during pregnancy, and the marginalization of motherhood as an identity—that explore how motherhood came to be an experience so dominated by anxiety, and how mothers might reclaim it. Writing with profound empathy, visceral honesty, and deep understanding, Menkedick makes clear how critically we need to expand our awareness of, compassion for, and care for women’s lives.
The Continuing Child Protection Emergency
Title | The Continuing Child Protection Emergency PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Abused children |
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