While alerting readers to the very real dangers that await those who accuse a spouse of child sexual abuse, author John E. B. Myers helps parents and professionals navigate the current court system to work toward attaining victory - and safety. He provides supportive and practical suggestions for documenting evidence and seeking an expert's advice. Myers demystifies the subject of incest and explains the requirements of the court systems so that mothers will enter the legal arena prepared.

This pioneering self-help book takes a close look at a topic that has been ignored or downplayed by other books on incest and childhood sexual abuse: that the non-perpetrating parent usually bears a great deal of responsibility for the child's abuse. In this examination of the complicated dynamics of abuse, the enabling mother is not treated as a victim, rather as an adult responsible for her failure to protect her child. Self-help exercises are interspersed with case histories and analytical material throughout the book, useful to both survivors and therapists.

Gives mothers an awareness of the incest damage, what to do now, how it could have happened, giving clues, symptoms, and hidden family dynamics to identify its existence...and to affirm wives' losses, confusion as a feeling of "craziness" settles in with the incest secret sabotaging the reality of their marriage relationship and their parenting. This book is both sobering and energizing for mothers. Armed with knowledge, courage to make changes, and a trust of God no-matter-what, a mother is the catalyst for healing in the family, especially her children. A must for mothers, pastors, and counselors!

Let's take a journey together as I explain how my daughter's drug addiction blindsided me! I will share what I went through in the process of trying to save her, deal with my Lupus, and raise her two children. I had to make sure everyone around me did not know how I was truly suffering on the inside; all while trying to keep a smile on my face. I pray this book encourages everyone going through a similar situation to seek God for strength and with His help, you will get through it.

Moving beyond the narrow clinical perspective sometimes applied to viewing the emotional and developmental risks to battered children, this book, offers a view that takes into account the complex ways in which a batterer's abusive and controlling behaviors are woven into the fabric of daily life. This book is a guide for therapists, child protective workers, family and juvenile court personnel, and other human service providers in addressing the complex impact that batterers -- specifically, male batterers of a domestic partner when there are children in the household -- have on family functioning.

" . . . an intellectually stimulating discussion of important theories and an enthrallingly personal reading experience." —Elizabeth L. Navarre\ " . . . the one book we've been waiting for. . . . The book succeeds admirably in exploring six women's stories with a great deal of respect." —Changes: An International Journal of Psychology and Psychotherapy " . . . poignant revelations . . . Johnson is able to paint an individualized portrait of each woman and avoids twisting their stories to fit some theory." —Publishers Weekly " . . . a gritty glimpse of a painful struggle, and a framework for rethinking our perspectives and prejudices." —The Women's Review of Books Janis Tyler Johnson has collected the stories of six mothers who relate, in their own words, their experiences as mothers of incest victims. Their accounts challenge the collusive, mother-blaming theory of incest families. Mothers tell how they discovered the incest secret, the ways they responded, and the meanings that incest held for themselves, their daughters, husbands, and families.