Parents Anonymous Is Established to Treat Abusive Parents
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Medicine, Health
- Subcategories: Organizations, Agencies, Institutions, Human Rights, Violence
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present, Women’s History
- Geographical Location: Los Angeles
- Date: Late 1971
Article abstract: Parents Anonymous, a group enabling parents who abuse their children to meet with one another for therapy, was established in 1971 and became an important nationwide agency.
Summary of Event
Jolly K., a woman born in 1940, helped to found in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s an organization designed to help people who faced problems similar to her own. Jolly had a severely deprived childhood, during which she lived in thirty-eight foster homes. She turned to a life of crime and became a prostitute. Her occupation and harried way of...
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