Child abuse
By: Jean Leverich, book editor.
Contributors: Leverich, Jean Marie.
Series: The history of issues
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780737728613
Subjects: Child abuse -- United States; Abused children -- United States; Child abuse -- United States -- Prevention
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-236) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: ch. 1: The child welfare movement. Chapter preface; title: The origins of the child rescue movement / Etta Angell Wheeler; title: Poor immigrant children live in tenement squalor / Jacob A. Riis; title: The high cost of child labor / Emil G. Hirsch; title: How child molestation became a crime / Stephen Robertson; title: Child neglect has been neglected for too long / Isabel Wolock and Bernard Horowitz; title: ch. 2: Medical and psychological perspectives on child  abuse. Chapter preface; title: Child sexual abuse is a source of adult psychological difficulty / Sigmund Freud; title: The doctor's role in battered child syndrome / Ray E. Helfer; title: Child abuse can hurt the brain / William J. Cromie; title: The long-term psychological consequences of abuse / Judith Lewis Herman; title: Child abuse can lead to aggressive, antisocial behavior / James Garbarino; title: ch. 3: Cultural and political perspectives on child abuse. Chapter preface; title: Whipping children does more harm than good / John Locke; title: Corporal punishment can be part of Christian discipline / Theodore Dwight Jr.; title: Religious affiliation influences what parents believe about corporal punishment / Denise A. Hines and Kathleen Malley-Morrison; title: Epidemic or hysteria? : day care sex abuse scandals in the 1980s / Mary de Young; title: The recovered memory debate / Tiffany Danitz; title: Sexual abuse in the Catholic Church / Michael Rezendes; title: ch. 4: Perspectives on the treatment and prevention of child abuse. Chapter preface; title: The government must invest in prevention / Thomas L. Birch; title: The government shold invest in family preservation / The Economist; title: The foster care system must do better / Lenny Levinson; title: Preventing child sexual abuse / Carol A. Plummer; title: Racial and economic disparities in the child welfare system / Nina Williams-Mbengue and Steve Christian; title: Protecting children from exploitation on the Internet / Michael McGrath; title: Ten years after Megan's Law, children are not much safer / Alexis Jetter; title: Chronology; title: Organizations to contact.