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The History of Childhood: The Untold Story of Child Abuse

By Lloyd DeMause

Book information

Publisher
Jason Aronson
Year
1995
ISBN
1568215517, 9781568215518
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
1 MB (1468219 bytes)
Pages
462\0
Topic
History
Time added
2019-03-19 21:35:44

Description

from the Foreword: Possibly the heartless treatment of children, from the practice of infanticide and abandonment through to the neglect, the rigors of swaddling, the purposeful starving, the beatings, the solitary confinement, and so on, was and is only one aspect of the basic aggressiveness and cruelty of human nature, of the inbred disregard of the rights and feelings of others. Children, being physically unable to resist aggression, were the victims of forces over which they had no control, and they were abused in many imaginable and some almost unimaginable ways by way of expressing conscious or more commonly unconscious motives of their elders...The present volume abounds in evidence of all kinds, from all periods and peoples. The story is monotonously painful, but it is high time that it should be told and that it should be taken into account...

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