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This book is a fascinating and gripping examination of birth, sex
and abuse during the Nazi era. Dr Chalmers' unique lens on the
Holocaust provides a stunning and controversial expose of the
voices of both Jewish and non-Jewish women living under Nazi rule.
Based on twelve years of study, the book takes an
inter-disciplinary view incorporating women's history, Holocaust
studies, social sciences and medicine, in a unique, cutting-edge
examination of what women themselves said, thought and did.
Our world enables the sexual abuse of children. Children of all
ages are abused in every country in the world, by members of every
society, culture, religion, and socio-economic class. About 120
million children under twenty, or one child in ten, report sexual
abuse. We often blame children for their own abuse instead of
holding the perpetrators responsible for their crimes. When
perpetrators are prosecuted, punishments are rarely severe.
Remarkably, we sometimes justify child sex abuse, or even
facilitate it, allowing it to continue, not only in hidden places,
but even in the open. This book exposes the stunning extent of
child sex abuse in today's world.
This ground-breaking book exposes a taboo aspect of Holocaust
history; the sexual abuse of children. Children were sexually
assaulted in ghettos, camps, on transit trains, while in hiding,
and even when sent to supposed safety outside Europe. The Nazi's
genocidal brutality facilitated the abuse of children, in addition
to targeting them for murder. In addition, children were sexually
assaulted by some rescuers and peers who took advantage of their
vulnerability. After the war, they were again betrayed by those who
discounted their experiences, and by Holocaust scholars who refuse
to acknowledge their stories or give credence to their memories.
Since childbirth became a medicalized - and usually hospitalized -
event a century ago, women's and families' psychosocial needs have
been relegated to a somewhat peripheral role within the clinically
focussed hierarchy of medical care. This text reinstates
psychosocial issues as a primary focus of care, together with
clinical excellence. Family-centred care is a familiar phrase in
today's maternity services, with professional guidelines and
hospital policies including the term in their care protocols;
however, few definitions, and no specific standards, for
family-centred care exist. While all caregivers and care services
are likely to define their care as sensitive to women's needs, and
family-centred, the actual implementation of a family-centred
approach - despite it being a current fashion in care - is still
inadequate. This book clearly defines family-centred perinatal
care, and outlines how truly family-centred care can, and should,
be implemented, and how, and where, this has been done.
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