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Montgomery, Heather

Familiar Violence

Montgomery, Heather - Familiar Violence, ebook

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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 childrenin the past.

Keywords: child abuse, violence against children, family violence, domestic violence, history of violence, history of childhood, sexual violence, british history, social history, history of the family, discipline, cruelty, child-rearing, history of child-rearing, history of parenthood

Author(s)
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Publication year
2024
Language
en
Edition
1
Page amount
264 pages
Category
Psychology
Format
Ebook
eISBN (ePUB)
9781509552931
Printed ISBN
9781509552917

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