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The unfortunate human tendency toward violence, starting when Cain killed Abel, constitutes a somber page in the archives of history. The record of mankind is replete with accounts of child abuse and neglect. None are more vivid than those of Charles Dickens, epitomized in his novels Oliver Twist and David Copperfield. The severely adverse conditions under which children often lived and worked during the industrial revolution, as well as the dark fate of many of Europe’s children during World War II, are modern examples of massive child abuse and neglect.
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Hughes, J.G., Hunter, J.A. (1988). Child Abuse and Neglect. In: Gottlieb, M.I., Williams, J.E. (eds) Developmental-Behavioral Disorders. Critical Issues in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0939-0_14
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