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Maltreatment of children exposes a sizeable section of the child community to serious physical and mental dangers and to death itself. I can do no less than offer this introduction in the words, as it were, of one of the victims—a maltreated child.
‘Out of the mouths of very babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength, because of thine enemies: that thou mightest still the enemy, and the avenger.’ Psalm VIII, 2
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© 1978 Selwyn M. Smith
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Sim, M. (1978). Introduction — a child speaks. In: Smith, S.M. (eds) The Maltreatment of Children. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6162-6_1
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