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The Child Abuse Industry: Outrageous Facts About Child Abuse & Everyday Rebellions Against a System that Threatens Every North American Family Paperback – January 1, 1986

by Mary Pride (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
The Child Abuse Industry: Outrageous Facts About Child Abuse & Everyday Rebellions Against a System that Threatens Every North American Family.
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  1. Print length
    268 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Crossway Books
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1986
  5. Dimensions
    0.7 x 6.1 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0891074015
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0891074014
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Crossway Books
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 1, 1986
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 3rd Printing
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 268 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0891074015
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0891074014
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 6.1 x 9 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #3,294,367 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

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Mary Pride

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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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  • Ruth Harper
    5.0 out of 5 stars Read The Child Abuse Industry; Save families from them!
    Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2013
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    The systematic institutional abuse of children in North America under the guise of protection exceeds and exacerbates any actual abuses by natural parents. So-called "Child Protective Services" too often become the abusers, apparently breaking up families for fun and profit as they bring forth fake charges, endlessly "interview" children at schools, implanting the ideas they hope to evoke later in court, and placing children in foster homes for extended periods of time, thus increasing the risk of genuine abuse when lonely and frightened children lash out in frustration against foster "parents."

    Many people in America, including famous authors and comedians as well as folks from other walks of life, suffered some of what passes for parental abuse of children these days, and were able to overcome it and make something of themselves, even to forgive, if not forget, some parental drunkenness or other failures. Now, however, there are swarms of "professionals" in the "industry" ready to tear apart families, twist and exaggerate events to make parents seem obsolete or detrimental, while they justify all sorts of touching, bribing, and coercion to separate children from the people who gave them life. Incidentally, the risk of genuine abuse is greater in female-headed households with live-in boyfriends, though such "modern" families are promoted by many politically correct pundits.

    Children do put themselves in harm's way quite aside from abuse or neglect, but our "healthcare professionals" are now forced to report anything that could even "possibly" be the result of an instance of one of those. And once reported, there seems to be no concept of innocence. The children will be taken, fostered, maybe even put out for adoption! And guess what: After children are taken from their natural parents there is a greater likelihood of abuse than there was before. Up to and including death of the child.

    As author Mary Pride states, "We need to get rid of coercive social work and replace it with justice and voluntary help." [Emphasis on voluntary.]
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  • Gary Martz
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Child Abuse Industry: Outrageous Facts About Child Abuse & Everyday Rebellions Against a System that Threatens Every North A
    Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2013
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    When this book was released in the summer of 1986 it was advertised on every religious broadcasting radio network and station (all day long every day) for several weeks. And it was a very, very, Big seller. The thing that amazed me the most about this book (which is also the very reason that I highly recommend it to Everyone...) is the fact that every word of it is so well documented. It takes 37 pages (full and fine print) just to cover the footnotes. Clearly this politely screams, "Don't take my word for it. You can check it all out for yourselves." It is Now time to re-release this book for the sake of the victims (among those described in the book that were children when their lives were so Horribly shattered) so that they can finely learn the truth about what was really done to them. And (at their expense) why. (Nevertheless see: Romans 1: 30-32; Psalm 37: 1-40; Matthew 16: 26-27; Romans 2: 1-11; James 5: 1-8; Isaiah 55: 6-11).
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  • Charles
    5.0 out of 5 stars child abuse industry
    Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2012
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    A very helpful book, in understanding how governmental departments work "for the sake of the children". Strongly encourage any family considering going into Foster Care; read this first right to the end, then decide how to proceed.The book is very informative, very well documented. Don't let it's publication date distract from reading it. The information was a great help to me in 2010 and 2011.
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  • D. Gleason
    5.0 out of 5 stars Got 'Em
    Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2008
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    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.
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  • Mammabear
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2015
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    This book is an all true reality of what's happening in our child abuse industry.
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  • Diane K. King
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2014
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    Though this was published in the 80s... STILL APPLIES
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  • Coach Mac
    5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT MATERIALS...
    Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2016
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    EXCELLENT MATERIALS...
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  • Bradley P. Hayton
    5.0 out of 5 stars Abuse of Abuse
    Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2012
    A publisher once told me that to be successful one just had to ride the crest of the wave. Write about a topic that was currently hot. Child abuse is just such a topic, and this year Christian publishers are riding the wave. Abuse is everywhere. Keep your guard. Pride is swimming upstream. Instead of screaming, "Beware of your child-abusing neighbors," she heralds the "invasion of the child-snatchers." Christians are too ready to have the State supervise child-rearing, to declare parents unfit, and to have the State take children from their "abusing" parents. In no kind words, Pride examines the vague definitions of abuse used by courts to separate children from their parents: teaching religion in the home, home education, hugging your own child, changing their diapers, withholding television privileges, scolding or spanking, or being poor, handicapped, a minority, a foreign national, a single-parent. The list could go on. Definitions of abuse are as vague as "inadequate parenting skills," "educational neglect," "unspecified neglect," "lack of supervision," or "emotional abuse or neglect."

    For these "abuses" children are being ripped from their families. Last year, over one million North American families were falsely accused of child abuse. Without any evidence of abuse, children are taken from the homes, and once they are taken the average time until they are returned is almost two years for whites and over four years for blacks, even in cases where it is conceded that they were taken falsely in the first place. Prosecution of abusers goes far beyond any due process for any other crime. Abusers are guilty until proven innocent. Of course, the law "errs on the side of the child," but Pride shows that the protective services are really places of abuse themselves. Children are housed in jails, shelters, and foster homes where they really are abused both emotionally and physically. Some are even "raped" by the social workers who examine the children. These indictments are not just rhetoric: Pride thoroughly documents every accusation she makes.

    Pride doesn't stop with her criticisms. She gives many kinds of alternatives. She believes that the civil penalty against rape should be biblical: death. Instead of removing children from the home, the accused should be removed. There needs to be objective laws, objective evidence, and objective sentences. The church and community needs to be more involved, and thus replace the State. Get the social workers out and the police in, and make people liable for false accusations and prosecution, including the social workers and police. She also wants to radically change the way our society views marriage and divorce, basing these institutions squarely upon biblical injunctions and principles.

    This book will surprise you. This book will offend you. But it will make you think through many issues that we ignore and slip upon. Child abuse is primarily a symptom of a corrupt society which doesn't base its lifestyle or its laws upon Scripture. There is a cost to discipleship, but it also has its benefits. Stable, non-abusing families are one of them.
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  • Margaret Bruce
    3.0 out of 5 stars OK
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 27, 2018
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    Good but dated now. Not much Christian content.
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