Child Abuse Legislation: Reporting Laws, Standards for Intervention, Passive Abuse, Fatal Abuse (Child Abuse: A Multidisciplinary Survey)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: March 1, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780815318224
Subjects: Alcoholism; Drug addiction & substance abuse; Psychiatry; United States; Social Science; Self-Help; Sociology; Abuse - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Sociology - General; Child Abuse
First sentence: Within the past five years, physicians, social workers, lawyers, and the public generally have become keenly aware of the problem of children physically maltreated by their own parents.