No Place to Be a Child: Growing Up in a War Zone

by James Garbarino and Kathleen Kostelny

Book Overview

Explore the lifelong psychological impact of war and violence on children This book should stab the conscience of the world. No one can read its gripping account of the terrifying impact on children of modern war and remain unchanged.--George McGovern, former U.S. Senator, South Dakota and 1972 Democratic presidential nominee

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0669244414
• ISBN13: 9780669244410
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

No place to be a child

With children and violence a hot issue in America, this book focuses on the effects war has on children. Of course, injury and loss of loved ones are at the top of the list, but so are less obvious detriments like barriers to education and health care. It also discusses the mental impact that war and violence has on children for years to come. Final section transforms discussion from international wars to similar impacts for American children in violent inner cities.Would like to see an update with new case studies like Sierra Leone, Iraq and Columbine. But, regardless, the book is still quite an eye-opener which can convince even the most hawkish warmonger that the "collateral" damage to youth from war/violence is long-term and potentially irreversible.