Child abuse / Jean Leverich, book editor.

Incluye bibliografía.

The origins of the child welfare movement. The origins of the child rescue movement / Etta Angell Wheeler ; Poor immigrant children live in tenement squalor / Jacob A. Riis ; The high cost of child labor / Emil G. Hirsch ; How child molestation became a crime / Stephen Robertson ; Child neglect has been neglected for too long / Isabel Wolock and Bernard Horowitz -- Medical and psychological perspectives on child abuse. Child sexual abuse is a source of adult psychological difficulty / Sigmund Freud ; The doctor´s role in battered child syndrome / Ray E. Helfer ; Child abuse can hurt the brain / William J. Cromie ; The long-term psychological consequences of abuse / Judith Lewis Herman ; Child abuse can lead to aggressive, antisocial behavior / James Garbarino -- Cultural and political perspectives on child abuse. Whipping children does more harm than good / John Locke ; Corporal punishment can be part of Christian discipline / Theodore Dwight Jr. ; Religious affiliation influences what parents believe about corporal punishment / Denise A. Hines and Kathleen Malley-Morrison ; Epidemic or hysteria? : day care sex abuse scandals in the 1980s / Mary de Young ; The recovered memory debate / Tiffany Danitz ; Sexual abuse in the Catholic Church / Michael Rezendes -- Perspectives on the treatment and prevention of child abuse. The government must invest in prevention / Thomas L. Birch ; The government shold invest in family preservation / The Economist ; The foster care system must do better / Lenny Levinson ; Preventing child sexual abuse / Carol A. Plummer ; Racial and economic disparities in the child welfare system / Nina Williams-Mbengue and Steve Christian ; Protecting children from exploitation on the Internet / Michael McGrath ; Ten years after Megan´s Law, children are not much safer / Alexis Jetter.

Presents a collection of speeches, court cases, personal reflections, newspaper accounts, and essays that cover the history of the child welfare movement which today includes legal protection of children from physical and sexual abuse.