Eradicating Child Maltreatment Evidencebased Approaches To Prevention And Intervention Across Services Arnon Bentovim Jenny Gray by Arnon Bentovim; Jenny Gray 9780857008237, 0857008234 instant download after payment.

Historically, there have been times when it was possible to assume

that child abuse and neglect did not occur. In nineteenth-century

America, the assertion that children might need to be protected from

abuse or neglect by parents and others who had responsibility for

them was regarded as so outrageous that the case that led to the

New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in 1874

was prosecuted under animal welfare legislation. In the UK, for

nearly a century, the issue shifted in and out of the public

consciousness, at one point being a major source of concern, and

then forgotten or ignored for lengthy periods. The London Society for

the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was founded in 1884, at a time

when concerns were beginning to be raised about the prevalence of

physical and sexual abuse and neglect; its activities sparked off

debates concerning the limitations of the father’s right to chastise his

children as he saw fit. The rights debate was almost always

framed from the father’s perspective, rarely ever the mother’s, and certainly

not the child’s.

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