When Parents Kidnap

When Parents Kidnap
Author: Geoffrey L. Greif
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2010-06-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1451602359

What happens when a child is kidnapped from home by his or her own parent? What are the emotional and psychological consequences of living in hiding for weeks, months, or even years for a child? How does the parent left behind cope with having no knowledge of the child’s whereabouts or well-being? And what could lead a parent to inflict such a painful existence on his or her own child?

A Kidnapped Mind

A Kidnapped Mind
Author: Pamela Richardson
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2006-05-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1550029223

How do we begin to describe our love for our children? Pamela Richardson shows us with her passionate memoir of life with and without her estranged son, Dash. From age five Dash suffered Parental Alienation Syndrome at the hands of his father. Indoctrinated to believe his mother had abandoned him, after years of monitored phone calls and impeded access eight-year-old Dash decided he didn't want to be "forced" to visit her at all; later he told her he would never see her again if she took the case to court. But he didn't count on his indefatigable mother's fierce love. For eight more years Pamela battled Dash's father, the legal system, their psychologist, the school system, and Dash himself to try and protect her son - first from his father, then from himself. A Kidnapped Mind is a heartrending and mesmerizing story of a Canadian mother's exile from and reunion with her child, through grief and beyond, to peace.

Kidnapped

Kidnapped
Author: Paula S. Fass
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1997
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780195311419

A look at the history of child kidnappings and abductions in the United States, the motives of the perpetrators, the activities of the media, and the results in the law and in public opinions.

Parents' Guide to Preventing Child Abduction, Kidnapping, and Missing Children

Parents' Guide to Preventing Child Abduction, Kidnapping, and Missing Children
Author: KidGuard Editorial KidGuard Editorial Team
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2017-06-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781548291860

It's the worst thing that can ever happen to a parent - Your child is missing. With child abduction making headline news around the world on an almost daily basis and with famous kidnap stories remaining in the public eye - often for decades after a child has been found - it is no wonder that parents list abduction as one of their biggest fears. But is this fear justified? Here are some facts about child abduction that every parent needs to know.

Kidnap Kids

Kidnap Kids
Author: Todd Strasser
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Families
ISBN: 9780399231117

Twelve-year-old Steven and his younger brother Benjy make a desperate attempt to force their extremely busy parents to spend more time together with them.

Parental Kidnapping in America

Parental Kidnapping in America
Author: Maureen Dabbagh
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-12-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780786465330

In 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice reported an average of 200,000 cases of parental kidnapping each year. More than just the byproduct of a nasty custody dispute, parental kidnapping--defined as one parent taking his or her child and denying access of the child to the other parent--represents a form of child abuse that has sometimes resulted in the sale, abandonment and even death of children. This candid exploration of parental kidnapping in America from the eighteenth century to the present clarifies many misconceptions and reveals how the external influences of American social, political, legal, and religious culture can exacerbate family conflict, creating a social atmosphere ripe for abduction.

The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara

The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
Author: David I. Kertzer
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2008-12-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307486710

Soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg. A National Book Award Finalist The extraordinary story of how the vatican's imprisonment of a six-year-old Jewish boy in 1858 helped to bring about the collapse of the popes' worldly power in Italy. Bologna: nightfall, June 1858. A knock sounds at the door of the Jewish merchant Momolo Mortara. Two officers of the Inquisition bust inside and seize Mortara's six-year-old son, Edgardo. As the boy is wrenched from his father's arms, his mother collapses. The reason for his abduction: the boy had been secretly "baptized" by a family servant. According to papal law, the child is therefore a Catholic who can be taken from his family and delivered to a special monastery where his conversion will be completed. With this terrifying scene, prize-winning historian David I. Kertzer begins the true story of how one boy's kidnapping became a pivotal event in the collapse of the Vatican as a secular power. The book evokes the anguish of a modest merchant's family, the rhythms of daily life in a Jewish ghetto, and also explores, through the revolutionary campaigns of Mazzini and Garibaldi and such personages as Napoleon III, the emergence of Italy as a modern national state. Moving and informative, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara reads as both a historical thriller and an authoritative analysis of how a single human tragedy changed the course of history.