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Children and violence : the world of the defenceless / Einar A. Helander ; forewords by Halfdan Mahler and H. D. Deve Gowda.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.Description: xxiv, 334 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780230573949
  • 0230573940
Subject(s): NLM classification:
  • WS 320 2008HE
Contents:
Table of Contents List of Photographs List of Tables List of Figures List of Boxes Foreword Halfdan Mahler Mahler, Halfdan Foreword Deve Gowda Gowda, Deve Pt. I Introduction 1 1 You Cut a Rose and Release a Tornado 3 2 Definitions, Materials and Methods 20 3 Mirrors of the Past 36 Pt. II Micro-system Violence towards Biological and Social Orphans 43 4 Children in Residential Institutions 45 5 Children On Their Own 62 6 Parent Deprivation: Consequences and Alternatives 78 Pt. III Damaging Effects of the Meso-system: Childhood Violence in Birth Families and its Consequences 85 7 Prevalence of Childhood Violence 87 8 Micro-system Consequences and Upstream Effects of Childhood Violence 133 Pt. IV Roots of Violence 159 9 Causes of and Contributors to Childhood Violence and the Potential for Primary Prevention 161 10 Human Services for the Child Victims: Care of Somatic and Mental Disorders and Rehabilitation 203 Pt. V The Global System: Perspectives of Human Rights, Evolution, Development and Progress 211 11 Human Rights and Human Wrongs 213 12 Poverty, Inequality and Solidarity 223 13 The Sacrifice of the Poor 234 Pt. VI Primary Child Violence Prevention by Exo-systems 255 14 A Community-based Child Defence and Support (CDS) Programme 257 15 Conclusion 281 Annex 284 Notes 288 Bibliography 297 Index 330
Summary: Child abuse takes place across all cultures and all religious and economic strata. Drawing on data from 152 countries this book estimates that every other living person has been a victim of childhood violence: sexual, physical and/or emotional abuse. Another important finding is that over one billion children in the developing countries are at present victims of poverty-related neglect
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Table of Contents List of Photographs List of Tables List of Figures List of Boxes Foreword Halfdan Mahler Mahler, Halfdan Foreword Deve Gowda Gowda, Deve Pt. I Introduction 1 1 You Cut a Rose and Release a Tornado 3 2 Definitions, Materials and Methods 20 3 Mirrors of the Past 36 Pt. II Micro-system Violence towards Biological and Social Orphans 43 4 Children in Residential Institutions 45 5 Children On Their Own 62 6 Parent Deprivation: Consequences and Alternatives 78 Pt. III Damaging Effects of the Meso-system: Childhood Violence in Birth Families and its Consequences 85 7 Prevalence of Childhood Violence 87 8 Micro-system Consequences and Upstream Effects of Childhood Violence 133 Pt. IV Roots of Violence 159 9 Causes of and Contributors to Childhood Violence and the Potential for Primary Prevention 161 10 Human Services for the Child Victims: Care of Somatic and Mental Disorders and Rehabilitation 203 Pt. V The Global System: Perspectives of Human Rights, Evolution, Development and Progress 211 11 Human Rights and Human Wrongs 213 12 Poverty, Inequality and Solidarity 223 13 The Sacrifice of the Poor 234 Pt. VI Primary Child Violence Prevention by Exo-systems 255 14 A Community-based Child Defence and Support (CDS) Programme 257 15 Conclusion 281 Annex 284 Notes 288 Bibliography 297 Index 330

Child abuse takes place across all cultures and all religious and economic strata. Drawing on data from 152 countries this book estimates that every other living person has been a victim of childhood violence: sexual, physical and/or emotional abuse. Another important finding is that over one billion children in the developing countries are at present victims of poverty-related neglect

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