Though progress has been made in terms of reporting of physical abuse, the issue of severe neglect has risen. The majority of children who die as a result of this abuse are under the age of five. It can have a serious impact on long-term health and public safety, and is spread from generation to generation, family to family.Īccording to recent statistics, seven million American children a year are abused and neglected. It impacts schools and a child's ability to learn. Family violence, learned at home, spreads out into all facets of everyday life, all over our country.

Additionally, when the mistreatment of children was addressed during that time, it was seen as a problem predominately associated with the economically disadvantaged and not as impacting a larger group of people. How do you feel that this issue has evolved, or not, in the years since?īefore the publication of Mommie Dearest, there was no meaningful public conversation about child abuse, family violence, or abuse by clergy or coaches. She endured and survived, becoming the voice of so many other victims who suffered in silence, and giving them the courage to forge a productive life out of chaos.Mommie Dearest brought awareness to and opened up the conversation about child abuse in the late 1970s. A fierce battle of wills, their relationship could be characterized as an ultimately successful, for Christina, struggle for independence. But at home, her lonely, controlling, even ruthless mother made her life a nightmare. It also shed light on the guarded world of Hollywood and stripped away the façade of Christina's relentless, alcoholic abuser: her adoptive mother, movie star Joan Crawford.Ĭhristina was a young girl shown off to the world as a fortunate little princess. When Christina Crawford's harrowing chronicle of child abuse was first published in 1978, it brought global attention to the previously closeted subject. Price in tact on front panel.īook itself is very good some wear / minor discoloration to boards tiny surface tear on front. Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.ĭust jacket is in very good condition some light shelf and edge wear. Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford FIRST EDITION / SECOND PRINTING WILLIAM MORROW & CO.

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