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Non-accidental Injury in Children
Memorandum of Evidence to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Violence in the Family
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 January 2018
Abstract
Historically, in mediaeval times, the epoch of childhood was less clearly defined. If babyhood was survived, all but the most favoured children became little adults and a convenient source of labour. Instances of the barbarous treatment of children, infanticide, exploitation, starvation, flogging and mutilation, abound (Mause, 1976) and until comparatively recently these seemed to have caused little public reaction.
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- Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1977
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