Child abuse errors : when good intentions go wrong

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Child abuse errors : when good intentions go wrong

Dennis Howitt

Harvester Wheatsheaf, c1992

  • : pbk

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Bibliographical references: p. 201-218

Includes indexes

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Description

Looks at how society's sincere desire to care for and protect its children can lead to terrible mistakes, and asks who, or what, is responsible.

Table of Contents

  • The long history of professional error in child abuse
  • gathering thread
  • pseudo-science
  • enlarging the net
  • abuse and the nature of sexuality
  • theories of error
  • battering families
  • sexual abuse
  • the present and the future.

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