EAN: 9781509552917

Bilder-Quelle: Living 24.de - Kinder

Child abuse casts a long shadow over the history of childhood. Across the centuries there are numerous accounts of children being beaten neglected sexually assaulted or even killed by those closest to them. This book explores this darker side of childhood history looking at what constituted cruelty towards children in the past and at the social responses towards it. Focusing primarily on England it is a history of violence against children in their own homes covering a large timeframe which extends from medieval times to the present. Undeniably the experience of children in the past was often brutal and children were treated with what seems to contemporary mores callousness and cruelty. However historians have paid far less attention to how the mistreatment of children was understood within its contemporary context. Most parents both now and in the past loved their children and there have always been widely shared understandings of the boundaries that separate the acceptable treatment of children from the intolerable and morally wrong. This book will examine how these boundaries have changed and been contested over time and in doing so provides a context to the many forms of violence experienced by children in the past.

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