The Power of Mothers Releasing Our Children

The Power of Mothers: Releasing Our Children

In The Power of Mothers Celia Lashlie sends a searing wake-up call to voters and politicians, parents and grandparents, social agencies and lobby groups alike. She urges them to take a look around and take action.

The Power of Mothers is a hard-hitting look at our troubled society, the intergenerational cycle of crime and criminal families and the women who have the power to change things for the better-if we let them.

Lashlie takes a pragmatic look at the deep-seated issues underlying our appalling youth crime statistics. Telling it like it is, she reminds middle-class families that these crimes are not being committed by the children of 'criminals'-they are our children, and we are all responsible for them.

An internationally bestselling author, Celia Lashlie has been a prison officer and prison manager, and has a degree in anthropology and Maori. A mother, nana, sought after speaker and social commentator, she now works in a freelance capacity and lives in Wellington.

The Power of Mothers: Releasing Our Children
Harper Collins
Author: Celia Lashlie