Daughters in Danger: Helping Our Girls Thrive in Today's Culture Author: Elayne Bennett | Language: English | ISBN:
1595554505 | Format: PDF
Daughters in Danger: Helping Our Girls Thrive in Today's Culture Description
About the Author
Elayne Bennett serves as the founder and director of the Best Friends Foundation and is an avid spokeswoman on issues of adolescent behavior and development. She is the wife of William J. Bennett and the mother of two sons.
- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson (January 28, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1595554505
- ISBN-13: 978-1595554505
- Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
The Good
This book reminded me of Unprotected by Grossman, and I was pleased to see that Bennett quotes her work extensively in Daughters in Danger.
Like Unprotected, Daughter In Danger is painstakingly researched and extremely thorough. And just a quick warning – it is not pretty at times. The real life stories and examples Bennett references are at times gory, gritty and stomach twisting. But it is a shock of reality that parents need to grasp in order to understand what kind of a world and what kind of problems our little ones are going to face.
I feel that too many “empower your daughter” books and articles tend to water down the real perils of young womanhood. This book does not do that. The first half of the book is painting a broad and vivid picture of the world our daughters will inherit. The second half of the book addressed what we can do to change our environment, truly arm our girls for future temptations and troubles, and be wiser guardians or our girls and our community.
There is precise and practical information for mothers, sisters, fathers, brothers, schools, colleges, peer groups and the rest of the community – all laid out individually, not lumped into generalities. All are practical steps to help put a stop to the moral threats this generation of girls face daily.
The Bad
My ONLY complaint with this book is that while Bennett goes into painstakingly thorough details concerning sex, STDs, peer pressure, emotional abuse, physical abuse, drug use, body image, bullying, alcohol consumption and myriad other pitfalls for young women – she only mentions abortion briefly and in passing.
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