The Child Abuse Industry: Outrageous Facts About Child Abuse & Everyday Rebellions Against a System that Threatens Every North American Family [Paperback]

Mary Pride (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 268 pages
• Publisher: Crossway Books (July 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0891074015
• ISBN-13: 978-0891074014
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #727,717 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mary Pride is the publisher of Practical Homeschooling magazine and the author of numerous books on women's roles, homeschooling, educational software, parental rights, and new age thought from a conservative evangelical perspective. She is perhaps best known as the author of the first mass-market homeschool how-to book (The Big Book of Home Learning (1986), which won both the ECPA Gold Medallion and the Silver Angel Award). It has had five editions so far, under various names.

Often credited as a pioneer in the Christian Quiverfull movement, thanks to her groundbreaking book The Way Home (1985), Mary says she prefers the concept of an "Open Quiver"--families welcoming children with an open heart, but not competing over family size. To that end, she recently released a 25th Anniversary Edition of The Way Home, with an Afterthought that tackles topics--such as the Patriarchy movement and Quiverfull--that didn't exist when the book first came out. Now that her own nine children are grown, she hopes to come out with more books soon.

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25 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An industry which wants to take our children, April 20, 1998

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This review is from: The Child Abuse Industry: Outrageous Facts About Child Abuse & Everyday Rebellions Against a System that Threatens Every North American Family (Paperback)

Mary Pride has written an insightful and prophetic book on the agenda of many who work behind a cover of child advocate while breaking up families and making the state into surrogate parents, much the way Hitler did.

She made the strong point in her book that those who make themselves out to be self-styled "child advocates" turn out to be the real child abusers.

She wrote this book long before Attorney General Janet Reno took it upon herself to recue two dozen children from alleged child abuse at the Koresh Compound in Waco, reulting in their fiery and premature deaths.

Having caught the eye of Hilliary Clinton due to overzealous prosecutions of questionable child abuse cases in Dade County, Florida Attorney General Reno is now a "child advocate" the same as the Ms. Clinton.

Only trouble is, while these self-styled child avocates are teaching people to honor the children, some of Ms. Reno's cases which establish her as child abuse protector are coming unglued. People she alleged to be perpetrators with zeal are now being set free after decades in prison by higher courts.

Mary Pride's book is still very up-to-date. All who claim to be "child advocates" in today's climate of child abuse hysteria should be considered suspect since any well-adjusted person is by common sense interested in the nurture and admonition of children.

Those who claim to be protectors too loudly may have other agendas which are hidden even unto themselves.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Got 'Em, June 8, 2008

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D. Gleason "Dgman" (Waverly, Ia. United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Child Abuse Industry: Outrageous Facts About Child Abuse & Everyday Rebellions Against a System that Threatens Every North American Family (Paperback)

A must read if you have children in the system and a strong should if you have or love children. She has the guts to tell the world a lot of these people are careers builders on the broken backs of families.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Voice in the Wilderness, March 26, 2009

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This review is from: The Child Abuse Industry: Outrageous Facts About Child Abuse & Everyday Rebellions Against a System that Threatens Every North American Family (Paperback)

The author wrote this during the height of the child abuse hysteria, when the femiinists pounced on the MacMartin day care episode as a vehicle with which to attack men. Stupid journalists, who are too lazy and too stupid and too gullible to ever question the feminists and the opportunistic prosecutors, went along and exacerbated the hysteria. We are still suffering from the hysteria.

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