Child Abuse in the region
Date Submitted: 09/09/2006 23:37:04
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 14 pages (3869 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 14 pages (3869 words)
Introduction
The abuse and neglect of children has transcended through generations and across race, class and ethnicity. Historical evidence shows that children were perceived as nothing more than property and were subjected to numerous forms of maltreatment. Children are often enslaved, beaten, prostituted and even killed at the hands of parents and guardians upon whom they are dependant. Gelles and Straus, 1979a note, "the family is perhaps the most violent social group, and the home …
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…Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
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