Possibly the heartless treatment of children, from the practice of infanticide and abandonment through to the neglect, the rigors of swaddling, the purposeful starving, the beatings, the solitary confinement, and so on, was and is only one aspect of the basic aggressiveness and cruelty of human nature, of the inbred disregard of the rights and feelings of others. Children, being physically unable to resist aggression, were the victims of forces over which they had no control, and they were abused in many imaginable and some almost unimaginable ways by way of expressing conscious or more commonly unconscious motives of their elders...The present volume abounds in evidence of all kinds, from all periods and peoples. The story is monotonously painful, but it is high time that it should be told and that it should be taken into account...from the foreword
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers
ISBN-13
9781568215518
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95511670
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Developmental Psychology, Clinical Psychology
Author
Lloyd Demause
Publication Name
The History of Childhood
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Psychology
Publication Year
1995
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
462 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
224mm
Item Width
150mm
Item Weight
689g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Editor
Lloyd Demause
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