Child Abuse: An Overview
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Authors
Hays, Richard H.
Issue Date
1975
Volume
8
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Journal Article
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FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|Just 100 year ago in New York City, a little girl named Mary Ellen was unchained from her bed and afforded safety and protection from her adoptive parents who had abused and neglected her. No laws then in effect covered the protection of an abused child, but the efforts of a concerned group of church workers were successful in persuading the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to intervene on Mary Ellen's behalf, based on her membership in the animal kingdom. She was thus provided protection from abuse by means of laws in effect which protected animals. This was the point of beginning for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in New York City in 1875.|Much has been done during these past 100 years through the efforts of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Many other concerned groups and persons have brought gains in the protection afforded children as well as the methods used to treat child abuse...
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8 Creighton L. Rev. 743 (1974-1975)
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Creighton University School of Law