America’s Children in 100 Charts

KARA’s next book, America’s Children in 100 Charts, is currently underway. It explores the impact of trauma on children and the impact of traumatized children on communities.

It’s about child abuse and trauma — what trauma does to children, and how traumatized children impact our schools, public health and safety. This is a guide to identifying and dealing with the most critical issues and causes of child abuse, and its solutions.

Child abuse and childhood trauma are tragic problems impacting all of us, our schools, communities, and every aspect of our quality of life. A note for readers: this has been a hard book to write. It includes tragic stories of vulnerable children with unhappy events and endings.

Sources consulted number in the hundreds: books, magazines, newspapers, published government statistics, research reports, foundations, special-issue centers at universities and informative internet websites. Many of the topics included are under-reported — or not reported at all — by institutions that could and should report them.

Read it as it grows

Draft chapters are open to readers now, and Invisible Children — the book this one builds on — is free to read or listen to on this site.