Parents Who Kill--Shocking True Stories of the World's Most Evil Parents (28 page)
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Authors: Carol Anne Davis
But if we are really serious about child care then we have to make it illegal for parents to hit their offspring: our current legalised violence inhibits child protection and breeches children’s fundamental human rights. As Professor Paulo Pinheiro, independent expert for the UN Secretary General’s study on violence against young people has said: ‘We cannot draw lines and try and define acceptable ways of hitting children. There can be no compromise, any more than we compromise in challenging all violence against women.’ By modernising the law on assault to give children the same protection as adults, we would take a huge step towards becoming a peaceful and loving society.
Preventing teenage pregnancies:
www.likeitis.org
Part of Marie Stopes International, this site offers sexual health information for young people
Ending pressure on women to have children:
www.nokidding.net
International online group for the happily childfree
Avoiding cot death:
www.fsid.org.uk
Internet home of the Foundation for Sudden Infant Death, the UK’s leading baby charity. Their free booklet,
Reduce the Risk of Cot Death,
can be ordered online or by telephoning 020 7222 8001. Alternatively, send a cover note requesting the free booklet to them at FSID, Artillery House, 11 – 19 Artillery Row, London SW1P 1RT.
For the helpline phone 020 7233 2090.
Advice on positive discipline:
www.childrenareunbeatable.org.uk
To join the campaign for a zero-tolerance approach to parents hitting children, contact: Children Are Unbeatable, 94 White Lion Street, London N1 9PF.
To order a Parenting Pack of six leaflets (including
Keeping Your Cool, Listening to Children
and
Encouraging Better Behaviour
) send an A4 stamped addressed envelope with five first class stamps to ‘Parenting Pack’, NSPCC, Weston House, 42 Curtain Road, London EC2A 3NH.
Or download them on www.nspcc.org.uk/
html/Home/Informationresources/forparentscarers.htm
For a single copy of the leaflet
The No Smacking Guide To Good Behaviour
by Penelope Leach, send a C5 stamped addressed envelope with one second class stamp to APPROACH Ltd, 94 White Lion Street, London N1 9PF.
For a single copy of the A4 poster
Think Before You Smack,
send an A4 envelope with a second class stamp (remembering that A4 envelopes need a ‘large size’ second class stamp) to APPROACH at the above address.
Early child education:
To find out if there is a Sure Start Children’s Centre in your area, telephone the Families Information Service on 0800 2 346 346.
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(online
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Drugs Kill Baby As Mum Smokes
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27 June 2008
Drunk father ‘smothered sick son in mercy killing’
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1 May 2005
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23 November 2008
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26 February 2008
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Carol Anne Davis was born in Dundee, moved to Edinburgh in her twenties and now lives in south-west England. She left school at 15 and was everything from an artist’s model to an editorial assistant before going to university. Her Master of Arts degree included criminology and was followed by a postgraduate diploma in Adult and Community Education.
A full-time writer since graduating, her crime novels
Extinction, Sob Story, Kiss It Away, Noise Abatement, Safe As Houses
and
Shrouded
have been described as chillingly realistic for their portrayals of sex and death.
She is also the author of the true crime books
DOCTORS WHO KILL: Profiles of Lethal Medics, YOUTHFUL PREY: Child Predators Who Kill, SADISTIC KILLERS: Profiles of Pathological Predators, COUPLES WHO KILL: Profiles of Deviant Duos, CHILDREN WHO KILL: Profiles of Pre-teen and Teenage Killers
and
WOMEN WHO KILL: Profiles of Female Serial Killers.
Carol’s website is located at www.carolannedavis.co.uk
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