Stop Child Molestation Book [Paperback]

Gene G. Abel (Author), Nora Harlow (Author)

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The Stop Child Molestation Book has been called "groundbreaking," "hard-hitting," and "a must-read for every family in America." What makes this a break-through book is its plan of action to put an end to child molestation. Using new facts from their stu

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Product Details

• Paperback: 366 pages
• Publisher: Xlibris (December 24, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401034802
• ISBN-13: 978-1401034801
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #605,782 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent resource, March 8, 2005

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Edward Elzey (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stop Child Molestation Book (Paperback)

I highly recommend this book. It presents a tremendous amount of valuable information that explains the causes of pedophilia and why child molesters do what they do. It is a hopeful book that presents concrete steps people can take to stop child molestation.

Unfortunately, the public may have trouble accepting its message, in spite of the strong credentials of its authors. The basic idea is that the ongoing sexual interest in younger children arises in boys during adolescence, and sometimes earlier. These boys can be identified and treated early, before they molest, and then they can be monitored for the reappearance of pedophilia, and controlled if necessary. Parents are in the best position to start this process. They can look for the warning signs of pedophilia in their sons, have them tested, take them in for treatment, and protect their other children from them. The problem is that society sees pedophiles as vile monsters, so that it's hard to imagine any parent is going to be willing to admit their child is one. I just can't imagine parents doing what the book recommends.

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Knowledge is Power in the Fight Against Child Sexual Abuse, July 8, 2004

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Susan da Silva (Benicia, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stop Child Molestation Book (Paperback)

I thought I knew a lot about child sexual abuse until I read this book. As a child I survived sexual abuse. As an adult I am still dealing with the long range effects of severe sexual abuse perpetrated on my daughter. This book really opened my eyes and gave me hope. This is a book of facts, based on extensive research. Knowing these facts can save families from the devastating effects of abuse that can continue for generations.

Since most child sexual abuse happens in families or with close family associates, the key to stopping it is to let parents know that there is help available for the perpetrator as well as the victim of the abuse.

The Stop Child Molestation Book teaches ordinary people what to say and do to be heroes and save hundreds of children from becoming victims or from becoming abusers. It does that by providing concrete examples of converstations that parents can have with their children, and a good list of resources for action if needed.

The tone of the book is definitely sex positive. What I mean is that this is not a book that is against sex or pleasure. The harm that the book tries to prevent is that which comes from sex between an adult and young children, or between children when the younger one is pre-adolescent and the age difference is more than five years.

I am so convinced of the importance of this book that I have bought more than a dozen copies and have given them away to families with children and to professionals that I know.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars an excerp from the book, November 28, 2007

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C. Johnson "Reggae fan" (Cali) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stop Child Molestation Book (Paperback)

"Many years ago, two groups of scientists educated in entirely different theoretical psychiatric orientations came independently to identical conclusions. One group, the analysts, including Sigmund Freud, and a second group, the behaviorists, both concluded that the fantasies coming from early childhood sexual experiences were critical to the child's development of adult sexual interest. It is a rare scientific occurrence for two groups of scientists from two different perspectives to come to identical conclusions. When this does occur, we say that the finding is of increased scientific validity. Our finding, that the older child's repeated sexual fantasies of much younger children shapes that child's adult sexual interest in children, is yet another confirmation of these earlier theories."

It seems to me that they have something here.