But I Love Him: Protecting Your Teen Daughter from Controlling, Abusive Dating Relationships
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Genres: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Parenting & Relationships
Book Type: Paperback
Author:
Genres: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Parenting & Relationships
Book Type: Paperback
Helpful Score: 1
First for anyone who actually knows me: No, I did not read this book because I'm worried about my teenage daughter's boyfriend. I read this book because I've got four *other* daughters who have yet to start dating, and I felt I should prepare myself. If the author's statistics are correct and 1 out of 3 teenage girls suffers dating violence, the chance that something happens to one of my other girls is sadly quite high, and I ought to do what I can to stop it before it starts.
So this book. Maybe I'm a sucker for psych books, but I really liked what this one had to say. It's audience is the parents of a teenage girl who's already *in* a bad relationship, and discusses ways to talk with her and approach the situation with an objective eye, rather than buried in emotionally-charged accusations and counter-accusations which are far more common.
From my perspective, it helps to identify the areas of discussion we need to have with the girls before serious dating starts, and gives me an angle of approach if that stuff goes badly.
The book was published in 2000, and thus written earlier... There's lots of talk about teens paging each other, rather than using cell phones as they do today (2009). So there's a bit of in-your-head translation that goes on there. (I'd actually love to see what the author thinks about the never-ending texting that goes on today.)
There's an extensive set of Resources at the end of the book; I worry that some of the organizations the author presents are no longer around, though a good Internet search should provide a new list, so perhaps that's not such a big deal.
So this book. Maybe I'm a sucker for psych books, but I really liked what this one had to say. It's audience is the parents of a teenage girl who's already *in* a bad relationship, and discusses ways to talk with her and approach the situation with an objective eye, rather than buried in emotionally-charged accusations and counter-accusations which are far more common.
From my perspective, it helps to identify the areas of discussion we need to have with the girls before serious dating starts, and gives me an angle of approach if that stuff goes badly.
The book was published in 2000, and thus written earlier... There's lots of talk about teens paging each other, rather than using cell phones as they do today (2009). So there's a bit of in-your-head translation that goes on there. (I'd actually love to see what the author thinks about the never-ending texting that goes on today.)
There's an extensive set of Resources at the end of the book; I worry that some of the organizations the author presents are no longer around, though a good Internet search should provide a new list, so perhaps that's not such a big deal.
