child abuse chic
1 May 2009 | crime | 26 comments
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I don´t get it, :´(
Great post! I never thought of this as a genre, but even the covers are almost the same! This is like exploitation, childexploitation. Incredible.
ahahaha
these titles and covers are making me laugh
does this mean i’m bound for hell? please, daddy, no!
the titles are priceless…
love hurts
unconditional love
You’re missing A Child Called It! That’s the diva of all child abuse books.
Good collage
In the UK, Waterstones has a section devoted entirely to these books under the heading “Painful Lives” - I’ve always thought “Payful Lives” would be more appropriate though (or maybe even Painful Lies? I wouldn’t be surprised). And before Woolworths got killed off these types of books would constitute over 50% of the book shelves inventory.
As a nation we’re a little hypocritical to say the least…
“Dance For Your Daddy” is my favorite title there by far. “Daddy’s Rules” and “Ma, he sold me for a few cigarettes” are good too.
Eeeeek! I think I find those terribly generic pseudo handwritten fonts even worse than the children’s facial expressions. Anyways, cheer up, kiddos, you’re on the cover of a book! o_O
out of all these covers, there is only one ethnic child.
oh i looooove these books. i don’t even have to read them, its just looking at the covers and there very existence. when i was going to America i was looking for a book at the airport and they had a massive collection of these. i love how people read them and tut at the horror. they may as well have been the abuser them self.
you should do a kind of parody/cover of those ….
book you may be interested in at amazon.jp: LE JARDIN DE LA FILLE
tiny samples here: www.sanctus.jp
nice link substrom
I work in a book shop in the UK and we have a whole section dedicated to this type of book, thats totally seperate from the regular biographies, we call it our ‘tragic life’ section. I always love the covers of these books, they find the most sad looking children and really get them to play to the camera, beautiful.
i figured this looks very much like a uk thing
As a teenager I had a job shelving books in the local library and I’d always notice humorous cover-art similarities like this. Thanks for putting together this collage, because it looks even better than I imagined one would. Paperback romances and fantasy tales are also guilty of this, but they aren’t as amusing as this “genre.”
daddy’s little earner? that’s sweet!
LOL. Those books…seem a bit….twisted.
the ‘tragic life’ section?! i need to file that away for future use.
I have to wonder who buys these books. Probably unassuming housewives with a dark streak.
and what sort of person writes them - vampires faking concern for exploitation
and what sort of person consents to their story being told for such trivial pulp titillation
Once upon a time…
I taught middle school.
For some reason; 12 year olds LOVE this stuff.
A Child Called IT is so ridiculous. However, 7th graders can’t get enough of it.
You’re missing “What Daddy Did” by Donna Ford from the same series.
Child abuse can be defined as causing or permitting any harmful or offensive contact on a child’s body and any communication or transaction of any kind which humiliates shames or frightens the child. Some child development experts go a bit further and define child abuse as any act or omission, which fails to nature or in the upbringing of the children.
the greatest abuse is the irrational fears generated by popular news media and talking heads as well as laws which destroy families and make impossible true healing whenever a child has experienced real abuse. i fear the pendulum has not finished swinging it the wrong direction and a new holocaust may be around the corner.
and what sort of person writes them - vampires faking concern for exploitation
and what sort of person consents to their story being told for such trivial pulp titillation
Yup. It is so much like the stories that Julius Streicher published in Der Stürmer in the 1920s. Same story in mild variations…young PRETTY and INNOCENT girl arrives in the big city, meets unsavory types (the kind that were exterminated in the 1940s) and dies diseased, addicted and with a rap sheet of prostitution. This is no different. It is also a variation of the spectacle Go Ask Alice, a novel pimped as a real diary of a teen aged girl’s spiral from honour student to full blast drug addict. Or Reefer Madness. All as titillating warnings of the failings of our society. Now it has come to this, detailed stories of child abuse. It is strange and repugnant that the authors, some touting themselves as foster carers, can formulate things like this. I am waiting for at least one of them to make headlines of being arrested for abuses.
Also…the covers are really shitty looking things.