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Description: Andrew Vachss is an attorney who represents children and youth exclusively, with 30 years experience in child protective work. He has been a federal investigator in sexually transmitted diseases, a social services caseworker, and a labor organizer. He also directed a maximum security prison for "aggressive-violent" youth.<br /><br />He has written a textbook, numerous non-fiction articles, graphic novels, a "children's book for adults," two collections of short stories and many works of fiction, which have been translated throughout the world.<br /><br />http://www.vachss.com/<br /><br />Mr. Vachss thoughts on emotional abuse:<br /><br />Excerpt:<br /><br />Emotional abuse is both the most pervasive and the least understood form of child maltreatment. <br /><br />Its victims are often dismissed simply because their wounds are not visible. In an era in which fresh disclosures of unspeakable child abuse are everyday fare, the pain and torment of those who experience "only" emotional abuse is often trivialized. <br /><br />We understand and accept that victims of physical or sexual abuse need both time and specialized treatment to heal. But when it comes to emotional abuse, we are more likely to believe the victims will "just get over it" when they become adults.<br /><br />That assumption is dangerously wrong. Emotional abuse scars the heart and damages the soul. Like cancer, it does its most deadly work internally. and, like cancer, it can metastasize if untreated.<br /><br />When it comes to damage, there is no real difference between physical, sexual and emotional abuse. All that distinguishes one from the other is the abuser's choice of weapons.<br /><br />Read the rest at http://www.vachss.com/av_dispatches/disp_9408_a.html

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