CHILD VICTIM, ADULT VICTIM, AUTHOR SAYS

Pressbox (Press Release) - SUMTER, SC, USA--Children suffering abuse readily accept greater abuse in adulthood.
That is the conclusion reached by abuse expert Heyward Bruce Ewart, Ph.D., university professor with 20 years of psychological practice experience.
"Child abuse mangles the personality, and sets up a false idea of self that attracts predators for a lifetime," he says.
A maltreated little girl, for example, will later pick out a mate who is no better than what she thinks she deserves. That relationship confirms what she has always thought: "There's something evil in me that caused me to be abused early and now. This is all I deserve."
Ewart says if she leaves that first bad relationship she will go to a worse one. And that's why shelters don't work, he asserts. Shelters offer haven but no insight into who one become a victim.
His new book, THE LIES THAT BIND: THE PERMANENCE OF CHILD ABUSE, is the first to establish a link between abuse as a child and further abuse as an adult, most often in domestic violence.
The book is in polished manuscript form and awaiting the right publisher. It was accepted by Edwin Mellen Press, New York and Wales, but Ewart found the terms lacking.