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Uncle Brian is a Criminal

November 17, 2017 Mary Kelly For the Kids, Parent/Teacher Collection, Society Explained 8 comments

Learning About Sexual Abuse
Aho and Petras
1985

This type of material is one we see quite often on this site. (Click here to see Mr T help kids, or this gem of a book that tells kids that sex abuse will make you gay.) Most of it dates from the 1980s and 90s when there was a lot of hysteria associated with stranger danger, sex abuse, and other crimes against children.

Regardless, this book is still dated. Most of the perpetrators are portrayed as having “problems” or are misunderstood. Unfortunately, no one seems to get these people arrested and charged with a crime. However, they do do get counseling or “help”. Note the final line in the story where Uncle Brian is evidently still allowed to hang out with the family. Evidently, just some once a week counseling and a “good talking to” by Laura’s parents will fix Uncle Brian right up. Notice how no one helps Laura and she still has to hangout with creepy Uncle Brian.

Something Is REALLY Wrong

June 18, 2014 Mary Kelly Doris Hall of Infamy 25 comments

Something Must Be Wrong With Me A Boy’s Book About Sexual Abuse Sanford 1993 Every time I think I won’t find more, they just show up. Long time readers on this site will recognize this author/illustrator right away. Our old

Please don’t talk about it anymore!

October 1, 2012 Mary Kelly Doris Hall of Infamy, For the Kids 11 comments

I Can’t Talk About It A child’s book about sexual abuse Sanford 1986 I hate to say it, but I think we do need to talk about it…. Our good friend Doris wrote another book for your consideration. Just like

Child Abuse Help

February 23, 2012 Mary Kelly Parent/Teacher Collection, Vice Patrol 3 comments

The Child Abuse Help Book
How to understand and cope with violence in the home
Haskins
1982

I plucked this from a teen nonfiction collection. Both the cover art and title are disturbing. For a brief moment, I thought this title was a “how-to” type book. I think this book is typical of those social topic oriented titles that are used for a school paper. Resources and advice are limited. For Michigan, there is a government address in Lansing you can write for “information” that I am quite certain is out of date. I have included some sample pages and I will let you draw your own conclusions on the value for student research.

The one positive this author did say is that the public library is a source of information on coping with child abuse situations. Too bad it is not this particular book. Let this be one of those posts that reminds you to go weed the 300s, especially in teens/youth.

Right Touch

August 15, 2011 Holly For the Kids, Vice Patrol 26 comments

The Right Touch: A Read-Aloud Story to Help Prevent Child Sexual Abuse Kleven and Bergsma 1997 Submitter: When I was perusing our juvenile section for a book for storytime, I stumbled upon this; another children’s book about “bad touching.” I

A great choice for a parenting collection!

June 2, 2009 Holly Parent/Teacher Collection 21 comments

When Children Invite Child Abuse: A search for answers when love is not enough
Gold
1986

A fellow Michigan ALB spy has given us this gem! I am speechless just on the title alone! Who on earth is the target market for this book? Abusers looking for an “out”? Question to the public library with this holding: are child abusers one of your major patron groups that you feel are being under served by the public library?