ch. 1: The child welfare movement. Chapter preface
The origins of the child rescue movement / Etta Angell Wheeler
Poor immigrant children live in tenement squalor / Jacob A. Riis
The high cost of child labor / Emil G. Hirsch
How child molestation became a crime / Stephen Robertson
Child neglect has been neglected for too long / Isabel Wolock and Bernard Horowitz
ch. 2: Medical and psychological perspectives on child abuse. Chapter preface
Child sexual abuse is a source of adult psychological difficulty / Sigmund Freud
The doctor's role in battered child syndrome / Ray E. Helfer
Child abuse can hurt the brain / William J. Cromie
The long-term psychological consequences of abuse / Judith Lewis Herman
Childabuse can lead to aggressive, antisocial behavior / James Garbarino
ch. 3: Cultural and political perspectives on child abuse. Chapter preface
Whipping children does more harm than good / John Locke
Corporal punishment can be part of Christian discipline / Theodore Dwight Jr.
Religious affiliation influences what parents believe about corporal punishment / Denise A. Hines and Kathleen Malley-Morrison
Epidemic or hysteria? : day care sex abuse scandals in the 1980s / Mary de Young
The recovered memory debate / Tiffany Danitz
Sexual abuse in the Catholic Church / Michael Rezendes
ch. 4: Perspectives on the treatment and prevention of child abuse. Chapter preface
The government must invest in prevention / Thomas L. Birch
The government shold invest in family preservation / The Economist
The foster care system must do better / Lenny Levinson
Preventing child sexual abuse / Carol A. Plummer
Racial and economic disparities in the child welfare system / Nina Williams-Mbengue and Steve Christian
Protecting children from exploitation on the Internet / Michael McGrath
Ten years after Megan's Law, children are not much safer / Alexis Jetter
Organizations to contact.