domestic violence

Eight-year-old Carrie Parker struggles to protect her younger sister Emma from the harsh realities of the impoverished life in North Carolina, using her imagination to create a fairytale world where they can escape from reality.

Articles present opposing viewpoints on the seriousness of family violence.

Eight-year-old Carrie Parker struggles to protect her younger sister Emma from the harsh realities of the impoverished life in North Carolina, using her imagination to create a fairytale world where they can escape from reality.

Eleven-year-old Charlie York's idyllic life in Sunnyside, Virginia, is shattered in 1967 when his father is killed by a shotgun blast and his mother is arrested for murder, and he becomes even more confused when his caretaker, Lacy Albert Coe, is victimized by townspeople who are offended that the elderly African-American storyteller has been left in charge of a white child.

True stories in various settings and situations depict child abuse and other kinds of violence between family members.

Addresses common questions teens have about family and domestic violence, including what it is, what are the different types of abuse, what the warning signs are, why family violence happens, how to break the cycle of abuse, and other related topics.

Because her partner continues to abuse her, seventeen-year-old Melissa takes their young child and goes to a shelter for battered women where she begins the healing process.

A Puerto Rican teenager describes her family's life with her abusive stepfather in alternating chapters with the story of the counselor who is trying to help them.

Examines the history and background of domestic violence, various types of violence including emotional, sexual, and physical abuse, myths about domestic violence, and how abuse affects the family, and contains profiles of noted activists and advocates and a directory of organizations and agencies.