A brief survey of attitudes to children through the ages drawing on legal history and on literature. The break through to an acknowledgement and understanding of the prob lems of child abuse are traced back to the first medical review of the subject in 1879, and the intense work of American radio logists and paediatricians in the last twenty years are described.
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