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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 1999 by Muller, Carol Doup
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 13 -- A MUST FOR PARENTS IS NOT EASY LISTENING: Gavin de Becker's specialty is threat assessment, a calm term for the stomach-clenching subject of preventing violence and sexual abuse. In an earlier bestseller, "The Gift of Fear," he made much of how intuition can keep people safe: Having a bad feeling about something -- and acting on it without dithering -- is humans' best shield from harm.
In "Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (And Parents Sane)" (Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio, 6 hours, abridged, $25), he aims his prevention lessons at parents: delivering a succinct course about who harms children, and why, and how to maximize kids' safety at every turn.
De Becker, who reads in...
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