Best Elder Abuse

A guide for estranged adult children of aging parents defines care giving as a developmental stage that provides an opportunity to work out unresolved issues, counseling readers on such topics as establishing boundaries, forgiveness, sibling dynamics, the effect of gender on the elderly, and the impact of eldercare on an offspring's marriage. Roberta Satow, Ph.D., is chairperson of the Department of Sociology at Brooklyn College and is a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Interesting title and very helpful book."
"Great book and very insightful for those who need to begin the journey of physically caring f or an ailing or elder parent whom they do not have that good of a relationship with. You come to realize you ultimately are the only one responsible for your own feelings and you are the only one who can make the necessary growth in order to overcome and deal with the parenting situation."
"The interviews in this book were very enlightening, giving me some new insights into the situations that I, and apparently many others, are going through with aging parents."
"This is a wonderful book!"
"given to my brother to help us deal with issues with an aging mom."
"After several years on my shelf, I finally read this book during my latest round of caring for my elderly mother across the country while trying to protect both of us from my brother's exploitative ways."
"With many of us having aging parents it is a very helpful lesson in understanding their behavior and ours."
"Good quality jacket."

In Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People , award-winning writer and cultural critic Margaret Morganroth Gullette confronts the offenders: the ways people aging past midlife are portrayed in the media, by adult offspring; the esthetics and politics of representation in photography, film, and theater; and the incitement to commit suicide for those with early signs of “dementia.”. In this original and important book, Gullette presents evidence of pervasive age-related assaults in contemporary societies and their chronic affects. The sudden onset of age-related shaming can occur anywhere—the shove in the street, the cold shoulder at the party, the deaf ear at the meeting, the shut-out by the personnel office or the obtuseness of a government. "In her stirring new book, the pioneering US writer Margaret Morganroth Gullette argues that the meaning of the word burden has shifted from referring to the demanding work of care-giving (expressing empathy with the carer) on to the recipient of care. (Alix Kates Shulman author of Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen and Ménage ). "Margaret Morganroth Gullette's take-no-prisoners book is as scathing as its subtitle, which refers both to cameras (the power of portrayal) and to guns (the very real risks of growing old in an ageist world). (Ashton Applewhite author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism ). "In this bracing, wide-ranging new book by a pioneer of ageing studies, every page sparkles with fresh insight and burns with apt indignation at how the 'othering' of older people operates. Hers is a positive vision, offering many specific proposals for a movement of resistance that could encourage an epistemic shift – a new conception of life’s course, a fresh understanding of words like ‘age,’ ‘youth,’ ‘decline,’ and much more. (James Clifford author of Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century ). “ Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People penetrates far more deeply than the stock tropes about the affronts of age bias.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Provides tremendous insight into age and ageism in US society."
"When entire groups of people, for no other reason that their appearance as old, are marginalized and denied full participation in public life, it creates a powerful problem of justice--the denial of equal respect and regard. While the plea for personal exceptionalism is totally understandable in an ageist society, it means denying their own history, letting others set the normative standards by which they live and collaborating in the negative assessment of late life."
"The author is an excellent writer who feels free to elaborate about whatever crosses her mind on any subject."
"I thought I knew practically everything there was to know about ageism, but [this] book made me gasp in places."
"This is a sobering, insightful, eye-opening book about a topic that is pervasive and too often hidden from our view, in large part because most of us have internalized at least some aspects of ageism without realizing it."
"Wide-ranging and deeply empathic, Gullette's beautifully written book on the way our culture represents and talks about aging is destined to be a classic that will challenge and hopefully transform the thinking of her readers."
"Margaret Gullette is our greatest, clearest, fiercest voice in defense of older people."
"Penetrating, complex analysis of age bias."

Rabbits! Rabbits!
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Find Best Price at Amazon"So even though this said a coloring book for adults, I actually purchased this for my seven year old daughter who loves rabbits (who doesn't?). This may be a downfall for people looking for a true adult coloring book - the pictures are a childish, but it's perfect for what I wanted."
"She really likes the pictures and although it is an adult coloring book she is advanced in coloring."
"This is a cute coloring book."
"The book is adorable - one sided pictures (great for my fine liners) and detailed enough to keep me interested."
"Cute pictures to color."
"Would highly recommend to any bunny parent or anyone who loves these adorable animals!"
"Pictures are average."
"I buy a lot of books for my 88 year old mother."
Best Child Abuse

It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games--games that left him nearly dead. This book is a brief, horrifying account of the bizarre tortures she inflicted on him, told from the point of view of the author as a young boy being starved, stabbed, smashed face-first into mirrors, forced to eat the contents of his sibling's diapers and a spoonful of ammonia, and burned over a gas stove by a maniacal, alcoholic mom.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This book has started an inner healing process.As I started reading, I started crying, crying so loudly that I started wailing."
"This book helped know that I was never alone in what I went through as a child."
"A girl I worked with told me about this book one day, and I decided I wanted to check it out."
"This book is a healing power to me, since I never have the mind to open up to Any body what i suffered during my stay with My aunty."
"I read this book years ago."
"Love this book."
"The child in the story had a good life for his first four years and then the abuse started. To have had a good life with loving parents then allo of a sudden you start being abused."
"I had read all of the Dave Pelzer books."
Best Domestic Partner Abuse

you will learn about: • The early warning signs of abuse. • The nature of abusive thinking. • Myths about abusers. • Ten abusive personality types. • The role of drugs and alcohol. • What you can fix, and what you can’t. • And how to get out of an abusive relationship safely. Bancroft, a former codirector of Emerge, the first U.S. program for abusive men, and a 15-year veteran of work with abusive men, reminds readers that each year in this country, two to four million women are assaulted by their partners and that at least one out of three American women will be a victim of violence by a husband or boyfriend at some point in her life.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"In short, I wasted 35 years of my life with this man, who distorted reality and everything I knew to be true and tried his best to make me feel small and unworthy. He moved out of the house last week (I bought him out) and I have to say ... it is sad, but I've never felt more at peace with the decision and I am ALREADY much, much happier. NO ONE should have to live with someone who treats you like a child, or curses you out "just because that's the way he's feeling," or will not respect you or your career, or refuses to stop drinking or drugging, or who physically harms or threatens you."
"This book will stop making you feel sorry for your abuser."
"So, with a title like "angry and controlling men," they are more likely to pick up the book, thinking, "Hey, this might apply to the confusing situation I am facing." He can routinely blame her for everything that goes wrong in his life, or he can constantly critique her and tear her down, or he can call her names that when I tried to put them in this review, got it banned from Amazon. Abuse is not a binary kind of behavior that is only invoked when the fists fly, but a deeply ingrained, unrepentant attitude of ownership, entitlement, contempt and resentment that a man displays, not toward most people in his life, but toward "his" woman (including past women). This confusion is created by the abuser himself, in his highly successful attempts to justify himself to himself, to his victim, and to the people around him. Bancroft did not did start out with this assumption, by the way, but came to it after years of working with abusers in mandatory counseling groups. When he started out, he believed what the abusers told him about how their behavior was caused by their wives' failings, their traumatic childhoods, their unemployment, or the hurts done them by past girlfriends; that they didn't know what they were doing; that they "lost control." The abuser, meanwhile, is functional in his life at large (except when it comes to treating his wife well), and appears to be a sane, trustworthy person. Small wonder, then, that the abused woman, her friends, and society at large cannot figure out what her problem is. If they start from the assumption that the abuser is a decent guy who means well, they will never figure out the situation. For example, in one chapter Bancroft examines in some detail a frustrating conversation between a whiny, controlling man and his wife, which ends with him insisting on walking home in the cold, even though she would be willing to drive him. Of course, his main motive is to maintain the role of victim, to keep himself in the right and his wife in the wrong, so that he can tell himself (and tell everyone else later) how she "left him" to walk home in the cold. There is a fascinating, counterintuitive warning (late in the book), that women in abusive situations should not seek couples' counseling. The reassuring presence of the counselor might get the wife to open up and say things to, or about, her husband that she would never otherwise dream of uttering."
"Anger management will not help these people; they need to be in an abuse program. Because most abusers never change, the abuse program needs to consider the victims as their real clients, because they are the ones who will benefit most by feeling supported and validated, and they are a necessary component of the program to keep the abuser accountable. Interesting that the day after I read this in the book, I saw it on Facebook as a meme."