Living Victims, Stolen Lives: Parents of Murdered Children Speak to America is a gripping and instructive sketch of the intense psychic pain, anger, and frustration experienced by parents of murdered children. Drawing on intimate interviews with parents enduring murdered-child grief and the insights of professionals counseling them, this unique book gives a deeply moving psychological, emotional, and spiritual portrait of people immersed in epic tragedy and loss.
Living Victims, Stolen Lives is not meant to be a comprehensive or definitive treatment of murdered-child grief or the sociology of crime and murder. Rather, its intent is to contribute to a more sober public outlook toward murder. This volume is an introduction to a topic that is, relative to its moral importance and the unmatched human suffering it causes, shockingly underdiscussed.
Though these pages contain a painful and disturbing snapshot of the soul-trauma endured by parents of murdered children, they are an important source for social and personal reflection, for only by gaining a renewed understanding of the torment the scourge of murder is bringing to families throughout the nation can we begin to move in a healing direction.
