Learn about our training materials in Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse.

Books, Monographs, and Papers

Don't Call It Child Abuse If It's Really Poverty [PDF], Journal of Children and Poverty, Win-Spr, 1997

Douglas J. Besharov and Lisa A. Laumann

Recognizing Child Abuse: A Guide for the Concerned

Douglas J. Besharov

Recognizing Child Abuse: The Trainer's Manual

Douglas J. Besharov

Op-Eds

Children Deserve Chance to Live; The System Won't Accept the Uncomfortable Truth: Some Parents Are Beyond the Help of Treatment Programs, (PDF version), The Orlando Sentinel, December 22, 1996

Douglas J. Besharov

When Home is Hell: We Are Too Reluctant to Take Children From Bad Parents, (PDF version), The Washington Post, December 1, 1996

Douglas J. Besharov

Child Abuse: Threat or Menace?, (PDF version), Slate, October 3, 1996

Douglas J. Besharov and Jacob W. Dembosky

Ignoring the Danger Signs of Child Abuse, (PDF version), Newsday, April 21, 1996

Douglas J. Besharov

How To Save Children, (PDF version), The New York Times, January 13, 1996

Douglas J. Besharov

Improving child protective services: how to expand and implement the consensus, (PDF version), The Washington Post, Novemer 2, 1995

Douglas J. Besharov

The Tightrope of Abuse Reporting [PDF], The Times Educational Supplement, June 3, 1994

Douglas J. Besharov

Whose Life Is It Anyway?: Pregnant Crack Users Act as Child Abusers, (PDF version), The National Law Journal, March 4, 1991

Douglas J. Besharov

Lessons from the McMartin Case, (PDF version), The Christian Science Monitor, February 9, 1990

Douglas J. Besharov

The Tragedy of Child Abuse: We all share the blame for the death of Bradley McGee (PDF version), The St. Petersburg Times, September 3, 1989

Douglas J. Besharov

Let's Give Crack Babies a Way Out of Addict Families, (PDF version), The New York Newsday, September 3, 1989

Douglas J. Besharov

Get the Message Out: Crack and Pregnancy Don't Mix [PDF], The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 20, 1989

Douglas J. Besharov

Crack Babies: The Worst Threat is Mom Herself, (PDF version), The Washington Post, August 6, 1989

Douglas J. Besharov

The Child-Abuse Numbers Game [PDF], The Wall Street Journal, August 4, 1988

Douglas J. Besharov

Overreach of the Guardian State [PDF], The Wall Street Journal, April 2, 1984

Douglas J. Besharov

To Protect the Abused [PDF], The New York Times, April 2, 1980

Douglas J. Besharov