Melissa Jonson-Reid, PhD, MSW, is Ralph & Muriel Pumphrey Professor of Social Work and directs the Center for Violence and Injury Prevention at Washington University. Prior to academia, she administered school-based programming for youth in foster care and worked as a domestic violence counselor. Her work focuses on understanding how children's policy and services impact longer term outcomes as well as innovations to existing programs to prevent maltreatment.Brett Drake, PhD, MSW, is Professor of Social Work at Washington University. Prior to academia, he worked as a child protection worker in a child welfare agency. His work focuses on the epidemiology of child maltreatment, maltreatment reporting and the response to reports, and the intersection of poverty and maltreatment.

Winner of the 2019 Society for Social Work and Research Book AwardJonson-Reid and Drake, experts and leaders in the field, tackle the complexities of child abuse and neglect in this truly outstanding, comprehensive, and well-written book. After the Cradle Falls offers a compelling perspective on how we understand child abuse and neglect, why it occurs, and what we can do about this pressing and perplexing issue. There is great value in this book for students, professionals, policy makers, and the general public. - Jill E. Korbin, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Professor of Anthropology;, Director, Schubert Center or Child Studies, Case Western Reserve University

• Introduction 1. A Brief History of Child Abuse and Neglect: From Nursery Rhymes to Mary Ellen to Today.2. A Crash Course in Child Protection3. Good Parenting or Physical Abuse? 4. What Neglect is And Why it Isn't "Just Poverty" 5. Words Can Hurt: Emotional Abuse6. Protecting Women vs. Protecting Children. Must It Be Either/Or? 7. Child Sexual Abuse: "Stranger Danger" or a Danger Closer to Home?8. Why Didn't They Say Something? Reporters Who Don't, Children Who Don't, Children Who Can't 9. Resilience and Treatment 10. Child Protection: A Broken System? An Evil System? A System at All? Does Everyone Hate CPS? 11. A Fairy Tale Ending? What You Can Do & What We Can Do Together Appendix: Want to Read, Watch or Listen More? Glossary

Melissa Jonson-Reid, PhD, MSW, is Ralph & Muriel Pumphrey Professor of Social Work and directs the Center for Violence and Injury Prevention at Washington University. Prior to academia, she administered school-based programming for youth in foster care and worked as a domestic violence counselor. Her work focuses on understanding how children's policy and services impact longer term outcomes as well as innovations to existing programs to prevent maltreatment.Brett Drake, PhD, MSW, is Professor of Social Work at Washington University. Prior to academia, he worked as a child protection worker in a child welfare agency. His work focuses on the epidemiology of child maltreatment, maltreatment reporting and the response to reports, and the intersection of poverty and maltreatment.

Winner of the 2019 Society for Social Work and Research Book AwardJonson-Reid and Drake, experts and leaders in the field, tackle the complexities of child abuse and neglect in this truly outstanding, comprehensive, and well-written book. After the Cradle Falls offers a compelling perspective on how we understand child abuse and neglect, why it occurs, and what we can do about this pressing and perplexing issue. There is great value in this book for students, professionals, policy makers, and the general public. - Jill E. Korbin, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Professor of Anthropology;, Director, Schubert Center or Child Studies, Case Western Reserve University

• Introduction 1. A Brief History of Child Abuse and Neglect: From Nursery Rhymes to Mary Ellen to Today.2. A Crash Course in Child Protection3. Good Parenting or Physical Abuse? 4. What Neglect is And Why it Isn't "Just Poverty" 5. Words Can Hurt: Emotional Abuse6. Protecting Women vs. Protecting Children. Must It Be Either/Or? 7. Child Sexual Abuse: "Stranger Danger" or a Danger Closer to Home?8. Why Didn't They Say Something? Reporters Who Don't, Children Who Don't, Children Who Can't 9. Resilience and Treatment 10. Child Protection: A Broken System? An Evil System? A System at All? Does Everyone Hate CPS? 11. A Fairy Tale Ending? What You Can Do & What We Can Do Together Appendix: Want to Read, Watch or Listen More? Glossary

Melissa Jonson-Reid, PhD, MSW, is Ralph & Muriel Pumphrey Professor of Social Work and directs the Center for Violence and Injury Prevention at Washington University. Prior to academia, she administered school-based programming for youth in foster care and worked as a domestic violence counselor. Her work focuses on understanding how children's policy and services impact longer term outcomes as well as innovations to existing programs to prevent maltreatment.Brett Drake, PhD, MSW, is Professor of Social Work at Washington University. Prior to academia, he worked as a child protection worker in a child welfare agency. His work focuses on the epidemiology of child maltreatment, maltreatment reporting and the response to reports, and the intersection of poverty and maltreatment.

Winner of the 2019 Society for Social Work and Research Book AwardJonson-Reid and Drake, experts and leaders in the field, tackle the complexities of child abuse and neglect in this truly outstanding, comprehensive, and well-written book. After the Cradle Falls offers a compelling perspective on how we understand child abuse and neglect, why it occurs, and what we can do about this pressing and perplexing issue. There is great value in this book for students, professionals, policy makers, and the general public. - Jill E. Korbin, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Professor of Anthropology;, Director, Schubert Center or Child Studies, Case Western Reserve University

• Introduction 1. A Brief History of Child Abuse and Neglect: From Nursery Rhymes to Mary Ellen to Today.2. A Crash Course in Child Protection3. Good Parenting or Physical Abuse? 4. What Neglect is And Why it Isn't "Just Poverty" 5. Words Can Hurt: Emotional Abuse6. Protecting Women vs. Protecting Children. Must It Be Either/Or? 7. Child Sexual Abuse: "Stranger Danger" or a Danger Closer to Home?8. Why Didn't They Say Something? Reporters Who Don't, Children Who Don't, Children Who Can't 9. Resilience and Treatment 10. Child Protection: A Broken System? An Evil System? A System at All? Does Everyone Hate CPS? 11. A Fairy Tale Ending? What You Can Do & What We Can Do Together Appendix: Want to Read, Watch or Listen More? Glossary