Schlagwort: Child Abuse

  • Margaret Creear: No child of mine

    [Socialism Today, No 17, April 1996, p. 6-7] The recent TV documentary-drama, No child of mine, was a sensitive and careful attempt to portray the character of child abuse. The story of Kerry, sexually abused from early childhood, was set against a background of ‘normality’, a middle-class household not a single-parent family on a run-down…

  • Harriet Gill: Abuse – Bell’s Cleveland witchhunt

    [Militant International Review, No 40, Summer 1989, p. 18-21] Harriet Gill, a London social worker who specialises in family and child-care work, analyses the issues arising from the Butler-Sloss enquiry. The most immediate questions that arise from the Cleveland child abuse events are: why does child sex abuse happen and how can it be prevented?…