Notes After Midnight: How I Outlasted My Teenagers, One Mistake at a Time
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Notes After Midnight: How I Outlasted My Teenagers, One Mistake at a Time
By (Author) Carol Richmond
She Writes Press
She Writes Press
24th October 2019
United States
Classifications
Physical Properties
Paperback
208
Width 139mm, Height 215mm
Description
As of 2016, 23% of children under age 18 live with a single mother.
About 62% of children have a mother who works outside the home.
According to a recent study published in Pediatrics, the number of kids hospitalized for thinking about or attempting suicide has doubled in less than a decade. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that suicide is the second leading cause of death for Americans ages 10 to 24.
1 in 9 girls under the age of 18 experiences sexual abuse or assault at the hands of an adult, and an estimated 63,000 children a year are victims of sexual abusethats 1 incident every 8 minutes.
In 93% of instances of child sexual abuse, the victim knows the perpetrator.
Author Bio
Though born in St. Joseph, Michigan, a beach town on Lake Michigan, Carol Richmond spent years of winters bouncing between Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi. She settled in California and lived forty years on the central coast of California until her husbands early retirement precipitated the move to a farm, purchased in 2005, on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Richmond now divides her time between the farm and the Monterey peninsula. The island serves as a creative respite, cooking and baking retreat, and writing solitude; the Mainland madness feeds her joy imbuing children with a love of ballet and theatre. She continues to nurture her first passion, the performing arts, as the director of a business with a sixty-five-year history of excellence. The three children portrayed in this memoir live as far away from her as possible yet are currently all speaking to each other . . . for now.
