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Eight Angelmakers: the hidden history of child abuse

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Abstract

This chapter examines the power dynamics of child abuse through the sociological lens of ‘othering’. This chapter’s analysis is set in its historical context, tracing developments up to the present day. Parental indifference historically emerges as a key issue, reflecting a wider societal indifference to abandoned children. Media silence was the product of cultural collusion. There were ‘known-knowns’ but they were also unmentionables. Why? The answer lies in the cultural dynamics in which vulnerable groups are ‘othered’. It resulted in devastating consequences for socially deprived children. They were allowed to die with societal complicity during the 18th century. The 19th century witnessed their segregation in institutions, where children were brutalised and exploited, that offered no material change in their circumstances.

Abstract

This chapter examines the power dynamics of child abuse through the sociological lens of ‘othering’. This chapter’s analysis is set in its historical context, tracing developments up to the present day. Parental indifference historically emerges as a key issue, reflecting a wider societal indifference to abandoned children. Media silence was the product of cultural collusion. There were ‘known-knowns’ but they were also unmentionables. Why? The answer lies in the cultural dynamics in which vulnerable groups are ‘othered’. It resulted in devastating consequences for socially deprived children. They were allowed to die with societal complicity during the 18th century. The 19th century witnessed their segregation in institutions, where children were brutalised and exploited, that offered no material change in their circumstances.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vi
  4. Introduction 1
  5. The reports
  6. The construction of child abuse as a social problem 27
  7. The public child 55
  8. The Catholic Church, scandal and media 85
  9. The Ryan Report and the charity myth 127
  10. Child abuse, cultural disbelief and the patriarchal family 161
  11. The context
  12. Rethinking children’s rights 185
  13. Child culture and risk society 207
  14. Angelmakers: the hidden history of child abuse 229
  15. The cultural politics of child abuse 265
  16. Conclusion 277
  17. References 283
  18. Index 297
Dark Secrets of Childhood
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Dark Secrets of Childhood
https://doi.org/10.56687/9781447317876-010

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vi
  4. Introduction 1
  5. The reports
  6. The construction of child abuse as a social problem 27
  7. The public child 55
  8. The Catholic Church, scandal and media 85
  9. The Ryan Report and the charity myth 127
  10. Child abuse, cultural disbelief and the patriarchal family 161
  11. The context
  12. Rethinking children’s rights 185
  13. Child culture and risk society 207
  14. Angelmakers: the hidden history of child abuse 229
  15. The cultural politics of child abuse 265
  16. Conclusion 277
  17. References 283
  18. Index 297
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