IV.	History of Child Abuse.

Jesús del Bosque-Garza

2003, Number 4

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Gac Med Mex 2003; 139 (4)

IV. History of Child Abuse.

Bosque-Garza J

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Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Child abuse is a phenomenon just as old as humanity itself. Researches reveal a long and painful history of abuse of children since remote times until the present. The more we go back to the past, the more exposed our children were to violent death, abandonment, terror, abuses, and sexual aggressions. Since 1999, the World Health Organization (WHO) has considered child abuse a public health problem. It has been postulated that merciless treatment of children is just an aspect of the inherent aggressiveness of human nature. For a long time, ignorance of children’s physical and emotional needs was the rule and even though this has improved our knowledge of what is required for good child development, abuses still occur. In this work, some historical aspects of child abuse are reviewed from physical and corporal punishment and abandonment to infanticide as extreme violence. The problem of aggression toward children goes beyond the medical environment and requires greater participation of society and the State to approach a solution.

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