Author: Pinki Virani
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 245
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0140298975
Description
A path-breaking book that challenges our notion of family honor and morality.
Sometime, somewhere, the conspiracy of silence around Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) in Indian homes had to be shattered. This path breaking book - the first of its kind in the country and subcontinent - attempts to give that sexually abused child a powerful voice. It provides damning disclosures about men, and some women, in middle and upper-class families who sexually abuse their children, then silence them into submission.
Based on studies, reports and investigation, this book reveals that a minimum of twenty per cent of girls and boys under the age of sixteen are regularly being sexually abused; half of them in their own homes, by adults who have the child's trust.
Contents
Acknowledgement
author's note
NOTEBOOK ONE
PART ONE
Vaishali : Three months
PART TWO
What is child sexual abuse ?
PART THREE
Home as hell
PART FOUR
What the numbers reveal
PART FIVE
Child rape
PART SIX
A Mother on the run
PART SEVEN
Arun : ten years
PART EIGHT
Boy versus girl victims
PART NINE
Historical ethics of Child abuse
PART TEN
Unofficial Secrets
PART ELEVEN
Women as Perpetrators
PART TWELVE
The aftermath
PART THIRTEEN
Srilakshmi : Eleven years
PART FOURTEEN
Brother Nature
PART FIFTEEN
Prema : Seven Years
PART SIXTEEN
Child Prostitution
NOTEBOOK TWO
PART ONE
Daughters & Mothers
PART TWO
Mothers & Men
NOTEBOOK THREE
PART ONE
Tanuja : Nine Years
PART TWO
What the law ignores
PART THREE
Secondary victimization
PART FOUR
Prevention than cure
PART FIVE
Dealing with disclosure
PART SIX
Child protection units
PART SEVEN
Dimple : Five Years
PART EIGHT
Dimple's Brother
PART NINE
Exit cycle
PART TEN
Exit Cycle
PART ELEVEN
To the Victim
PART TWELVE
Healing by yourself
PART THIRTEEN
Siddharth : Twelve Years
PART FOURTEEN
Razia : Thirteen Years
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