Identifying Child Molesters: Preventing Child Sexual Abuse by Recognizing the Patterns of the Offenders (Paperback)

by Carla van Dam (Author) "This book was written to help readers know how to better protect children from potential child sexual molesters long before any abuse might otherwise occur..." (more)
Key Phrases: one molester, child sexual molesters, child sexual ahuse, Margaret Carruthers, Setting Boundaries, Robert Noyes (more...)

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"The Definitive Work On the Subject. Extremely helpful to parents in their effort to protect their children from sexual exploiters.... Provides parents and others with tools to recognize when and how to intervene."

Product Description
Identifying Child Molesters: Preventing Child Sexual Abuse by Recognizing the Patterns of the Offenders will teach you to better protect children from potential child sexual molesters long before any abuse might otherwise have occurred. Here you'll learn to recognize and understand the seemingly invisible steps that typically precede child sexual abuse. These stories of molesters, their families, and their victims, will enable you to more accurately see through a potential molester's charming demeanor and better protect the children in your life.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 248 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (February 9, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789007436
• ISBN-13: 978-0789007438
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 6.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #223,128 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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19 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Empowering, March 26, 2003

By A Customer

Any parent who reads this book will have more tools to care for their child(ren). Dr. van Dam focuses on adults becoming the first and strongest line of defense against child sexual abuse and proactive for children who report abuse. The information lifts the wool from the wolf in sheep's clothing without cynicism. Readers will become knowledgeable as they learn the surrounding issues and its effects. The information is well organized, written, and researched. Perhaps, its repetive reading but clear from naivete. Most importantly, the guidelines for intervention are revealed.

20 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very accurate, July 17, 2002

By	"catladyj" (Carmichaels, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This is the only book that I have read that has given me insight into the child molester. It is helpful in letting a parent know what warning signs to look for in a person to suggest whether or not they may be a child molester. As a mother of molested children, I have found this book helpful at giving me a better insight about the type of men that do this to children.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Read This book America:, February 24, 2004

By A Customer

After the press told the story of little Carlie Brucia, I believe this book should have been purchased by everyone. This book gives insight and teaches us caution not just for ourselves but for our children. this is a marvelous book. I want to recommend to the reading audience a couple of other books, NNIGHTMARES ECHO, LOST BOY and THE PRIVILEGE OF YOUTH. Please read and learn what can happen to a child right under our noses and also make sure to read Identifying child Molesters..so you will know some of what is needed to protect.