NCJ Number
191632
Date Published
2001
Length
465 pages
Annotation
This is a true story about a battered woman, Jeanne King and her experiences and attempt to break the cycle of violence that included both spousal and child abuse.
Abstract
Jeanne King tells her family story of 16 years of abuse beyond control. She intertwines personal vulnerability and psychological insight in showing what supports and what breaks the battering cycle. Her story was written for the benefit of the millions of battered women and abused children, afflicted with and entrapped by family violence. She addresses the psychosocial dysfunction affecting 1 out of every 3 women in America today. She uncovers a social political scandal that re-victimizes the abused. She shows how a well-documented abuser used the system to his advantage. The story is divided into three parts. Part 1 on family violence, child and spousal abuse focused on abuse from the beginning, child abuse and wife assault, emotional, verbal, and psychological abuse, verbal licks and manly punches, the question of is it domestic violence, physical signs that bring the family secret out, death calls before divorce, the perpetrator as a legal enemy, and civil findings of abuse. Part 2 on domestic violence transformed into litigation abuse discussed pseudo-protection, permitted abuse, psychologicals tell all, agreed orders, betrayal, how the lawyers know the inside story, legal psychiatric ploys, legal domestic abuse, the heart is not enough, domestic violence and family to court, third generation domestic violence, gross legal malpractice, quick protected exit, victims cry out, reckless father and careless court, the bench blind to the law, and protecting the court. Finally, Part 3 on abuse as a choice for adults only focused on silencing the victims, the slander weapon, being abused as a choice, and the thinning thread. Part 3 is followed by a personal epilogue. Appendices, and references