Licensing Parents: Can We Prevent Child Abuse And Neglect?

Licensing Parents addresses the relationship between poverty, unemployment, and other socio-economic issues to competent parenting in a unique and creative manner. Examines why the current generation of children and youth is the first in our nation's history to be less well-off--psychologically, socially, and morally--than their parents were at the same age.

Jack C. Westman, M.D., brings 30 years of work with abused and neglected children to bear on contemoprary social problems. He has published over 100 professional articles and is the author of Individual Differences in Children, Child Advocacy, Handbook of Learning Disabilities, and Who Speaks for the Children? He is the Editor of Child Psychiatry and Human Development and has been President of the American Association of Psychiatric Services for Children and the Multidisciplinary Academy of Clinical Education. Dr. Westman is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Universty of Wisconsin-Madison.