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Originally posted by Yoggit ↑

Wow chris, where have you been? Child neglect, maltreatment, and abandonment at the hands of parents and caregivers has been going on for years. Now all of a sudden it has caught your attention. Better late than never.

Although child maltreatment has been occurring since before there were laws to protect children from abuse and neglect, western society in the 19th century was characterised by particularly brutal attitudes towards children, a fact immortalised by authors of the time such as Charles Dickens (1812–1870). The first manifestations of child protection services with a legal mandate to intervene to protect children from abuse and neglect emerged in the late 19th century, initially in the form of charitable and philanthropic endeavours.
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It also should be remembered that the worst child abuse is in the Aboriginal community

A practice which has not changed over the last 200 years even though the rest of Australia has moved on from Dickens days they haven't
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