Child abuse

Child abuse

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Other Authors: Leverich, Jean Marie
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Published: Detroit Greenhaven Press 2008
Series:The history of issues
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Abused children > United States
Child abuse > Prevention > United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • ch. 1: The child welfare movement. Chapter preface
  • The origins of the child rescue movement / Etta Angell Wheeler
  • Poor immigrant children live in tenement squalor / Jacob A. Riis
  • The high cost of child labor / Emil G. Hirsch
  • How child molestation became a crime / Stephen Robertson
  • Child neglect has been neglected for too long / Isabel Wolock and Bernard Horowitz
  • ch. 2: Medical and psychological perspectives on child abuse. Chapter preface
  • Child sexual abuse is a source of adult psychological difficulty / Sigmund Freud
  • The doctor's role in battered child syndrome / Ray E. Helfer
  • Child abuse can hurt the brain / William J. Cromie
  • The long-term psychological consequences of abuse / Judith Lewis Herman
  • Child abuse can lead to aggressive, antisocial behavior / James Garbarino
  • ch. 3: Cultural and political perspectives on child abuse. Chapter preface
  • Whipping children does more harm than good / John Locke
  • Corporal punishment can be part of Christian discipline / Theodore Dwight Jr.
  • Religious affiliation influences what parents believe about corporal punishment / Denise A. Hines and Kathleen Malley-Morrison
  • Epidemic or hysteria? : day care sex abuse scandals in the 1980s / Mary de Young
  • The recovered memory debate / Tiffany Danitz
  • Sexual abuse in the Catholic Church / Michael Rezendes
  • ch. 4: Perspectives on the treatment and prevention of child abuse. Chapter preface
  • The government must invest in prevention / Thomas L. Birch
  • The government shold invest in family preservation / The Economist
  • The foster care system must do better / Lenny Levinson
  • Preventing child sexual abuse / Carol A. Plummer
  • Racial and economic disparities in the child welfare system / Nina Williams-Mbengue and Steve Christian
  • Protecting children from exploitation on the Internet / Michael McGrath
  • Ten years after Megan's Law, children are not much safer / Alexis Jetter
  • Chronology
  • Organizations to contact

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