Editor Jacqueline Langwith has thoughtfully and sensitively compiled several essays that debate the issues relating to child abuse. Across three chapters, readers will consider how serious the problem of child abuse is. They will analyze the causes of it. They will consider the best ways to prevent it. Does the U.S. Child Protection System work? Is the recession linked to an increase in child abuse? Is child sexual abuse a crisis in the Catholic Church? These and more questions are answered, providing readers with issue awareness and an opportunity to think critically about important issues.