Advocacy Groups

• Project NoSpank Project NoSpank is the Web presence of Parents and Teachers against Violence in Education, PTAVE, a nonprofit organization advocating for the fundamental right of all children to grow and learn...
• Children's Protection & Advocacy Coalition (CPAC)
• The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children: The NYSPCC is the oldest child protection agency in the world. It was created in 1875 to protect children from abuse and has been operating since that time to achieve its mission through direct service, education, advocacy and research.
• BOOT CAMP FOR KIDS: TORTURING TEENAGERS FOR FUN AND PROFIT A Matter of Time--How Juvenile Justice Systems Fail Kids, By David Shapinsky, http://www.abcnews.go.com, February 26, 2000
• WHAT GOOD IS SCHOOL PADDLING? by Jeff Charles Paddling has been banned in 27 states and is used hardly at all in many of the others. Thus, almost all U.S. paddling is now performed in a relative...

Stories of Survival, Healing and Recovery

• Book: A Child Called 'It' : One Child's Courage to Survive: by David J. Pelzer, Dave Pelzer; List Price: $9.95; Our Price: $4.98; You Save: $4.97 (50%); Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours.
• Book: The Drama of the Gifted Child : The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller, Ruth Ward (Translator); Our Price: $10.00; You Save: $2.50 (20%); Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours.
• Holli's Triumph Over Tragedy: This site is dedicated to survivors, and their allies in healing.

Links Pages

• Essential Information on Abuse, Assault, Rape & Domestic Violence

Results of Abuse

• EMOTIONAL ABUSE Emotional abuse of children can lead, in adulthood, to addiction, rage, a severely damaged sense of self and an inability to truly bond with others. But--if it happened to you--there is a way out.

Technical Information, Statistics, Scholarly Writings

• Different Forms of Child Abuse The results of a study by the US National Centre on Child Abuse and Neglect:
• Why Does it Happen? A scream rings out in the evening, then silence. If you listen you can hear the sobbing and crying of one small child, too old to not understand and too young to do anything about it.

Other Links

• Operational Definitions: Operational definitions of abuse, neglect, and in danger of abuse.
• The Overlap Between Child Maltreatment and Woman Abuse: (Ignore password box) A great deal of attention is now being paid to both violence against women and to the effects of such violence on their children. One question that commonly arises is: How often does child abuse and woman battering occur in the same families?
• Pedo-Stop A private not-for-profit organization which is dedicated to exposing and educating the public about the growing and disturbing phenomena of the trade and distribution of child pornography within the on-line services.
• The Safe Child Homepage: Child Abuse Prevention Works! Find Out How...
• T.A.S.K: A network of people whose purpose is to educate in areas of child abuse.
• What is Child Abuse? Texas law provides a definition of child abuse. In addition, the law provides criminal sanctions for assaults, Sexual assaults, and other acts that may be committed against children.
• What is Child Abuse and Neglect? Child abuse has been proven to be one of the leading causes of childhood deaths in this nation. According to recent studies every 4 seconds a child is abused and every 7 minutes a child's life is lost.
• When a Child Wants a Divorce: With the recent victories of Gregory K. in Florida and Maggie Gerst and Jason Moore in Illinois, which allowed each of these youth to file charges of child abuse and move for termination of parental rights on their own behalf, there has been an exciting sense of broadened youth rights - of a bona fide youth rights movement emerging.
• You Carry the Cure In Your Own Heart: Emotional abuse of children can lead, in adulthood, to addiction, rage, a severely damaged sense of self and an inability to truly bond with others. But if it happened to you there is a way out.