Understanding child abuse : the partners of child sex offenders tell their stories / Terry Philpot.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Understanding Child Abuse is the first book to look at women whose partners are child sex offenders. Much of the book is devoted to the voices of the women themselves, telling their stories and how they feel about the situations in which they found themselves, how they coped, and how they remade their lives and those of their families. They describe what they learned from their experience and how it changed them.

Such experience is largely overlooked by researchers, agencies and policy makers and this book throws unique light on this neglected area. The chapters cover:

Combining theory, practice and personal testimony in a concise and accessible manner, Understanding Child Abuse is essential reading for social work practitioners and students as well as probation officers and anyone involved with child protection. It will also be of interest to members of the public.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• About the author (p. ix)
• Acknowledgements (p. x)
• A note on terminology (p. xii)
• Introduction (p. 1)
• 1 Children, sexual abuse and its effects (p. 6)
• 2 A mother's lot (p. 15)
• The Women's Stories (p. 31)
• "You don't know what they're thinking and they're secretly blaming you" (p. 33)
• "Now he's playing happy families" (p. 45)
• "I want to go back with him 'cos I love him" (p. 51)
• "I'll be honest with you - I just want to have a happy life now" (p. 59)
• "You need to do something with your life - change it" (p. 69)
• "Tom is a good person who's done a very bad thing" (p. 79)
• "I'm suffering for what he's done. It's the price you have to pay" (p. 93)
• 3 Child sex offenders and what we know about them (p. 101)
• The Men's Stories (p. 113)
• "You can work through it" (p. 115)
• "I'd like someone to confide in" (p. 124)
• 4 A place of Safety (p. 134)
• Notes (p. 142)
• References (p. 144)

Author notes provided by Syndetics