Damaged
Heartbreaking Stories of the Kids Trapped in Britain's Broken Care System
by Chris Wild
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Pub Date 14 Sep 2018 | Archive Date 15 Aug 2018
Kings Road Publishing | Blink Publishing
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Description
"We were just sacks of flesh existing as punchbags for their rage, or toys for their entertainment."
Chris Wild lost his dad aged 11, leaving him to grow up in the care system. There, he witnessed the incessant physical and sexual abuse of children, with the only escape leading to the streets. So many others like him, failed by the systems put in place to protect them, ended up with nothing but drink, drugs, prostitution and crime as their normality.
Later, working in a care home himself became the only way Chris could help, but he was shocked to discover little had changed and vulnerable children were still being failed. In Damaged, he shares heartbreaking memories of the care system along with the stories of all the boys, girls, men and women he met along the way - exposing why we must take action now to protect all of Britain's forgotten children.
Advance Praise
'Chris Wild's searing exposé of life in and around the children's care system in the early 1990s... this no-holds-barred, often distressingly graphic depiction of young lives lost to neglect and abuse in the north of England. The reader is at once moved, outraged and ashamed. Moved, because you would need a granite heart not to weep at the brutal destruction of innocence; outraged at how the perpetrators could get away with so much for so long, and how the system's indifference facilitated such horrors, and ashamed because chances are that you and I have, at some point, walked past and ignored these lost souls on the high street or in our local park...
Read the book, get angry, and do anything and everything to ensure that, even in times of austerity and budget cuts, that those charged with caring for our nation's children remain scrutinised and accountable to the public.' - outnewsglobal.com
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781911600640 |
| PRICE | US$14.95 (USD) |
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Kellie C, Reviewer
A thought provoking read about kids on the street and kids in care. The main story is about Chris and his life growing up after losing his dad. He spirals out of control and meets people from different back grounds along the way. I loved how the book told us the tragic lives of the people he meets. Really enjoy this book and thought is was very well written. It pulled on the heart strings and all though if I wanted to change so much for him.
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