The Great War demanded that there was hardly a field of endeavor that women did not move into to release the men for the battlefield. The first women joined the police force, and it was also during these first decades of the century that scientific methods of detection were being rapidly developed. From medicine to international travel to the study of the human mind, all benefited from a time that was both terrifyingly painful in terms of the cost to human life, and yet demonstrated a hunger for innovation and a fascination with the avant-garde. It is in this world that Maisie Dobbs came of age." ~ www.jacquelinewinspear.com
More information about the author and the Maisie Dobbs books can be found at http://www.jacquelinewinspear.com.
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We learned in Redeeming Love that the effects of childhood prostitution can leave scars that have lasting consequences. This sickening crime is thriving in Atlanta even today. Just this past weekend, the AJC reports that the FBI launched a nationwide operation to round up juvenile prostitutes, their pimps and the disgusting johns who continue to support this gross injustice against children. In Atlanta, they rescued 45 teenage prostitutes ages 13 and up and 50 pimps. The children are in foster care or state homes since they have no one who will take responsibility for them. Who knows how long it will be before they are back on the streets surviving the only way they know how. We can relate to Angel's story when her mother died and she was sold to Duke; left alone in the world to suffer the abuse of a child prostitute.
