ISBN:

• 9780737728613
• 0737728612

Description: 242 pages ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-236) and index.

Contents:

• Introduction
• ch. 1: The child welfare movement. Chapter preface
• 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
• ch. 2: Medical and psychological perspectives on child abuse. Chapter preface
• 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
• ch. 3: Cultural and political perspectives on child abuse. Chapter preface
• 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
• ch. 4: Perspectives on the treatment and prevention of child abuse. Chapter preface
• 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
• Chronology
• Organizations to contact.

LCCN: 2007038352

Control Number: 316473

Series:

• History of issues.
• Opposing viewpoints series
• Opposing viewpoints series.
• The history of issues

Subjects:

• Abused children -- United States.
• Child abuse -- United States -- Prevention.
• Child abuse -- United States.

Other Authors: Leverich, Jean Marie.