The Growing Tragedy of BATTERED CHILDREN - William F Dankenbring - July 1971

William F Dankenbring

WHY do some parents beat and abuse their own children? Is permissiveness the answer to this growing, heartbreaking tragedy? The true story of what is happening to many little children across the United States and Britain, and around the world, is more appalling than any horror movie. Increasingly, children have been ruthlessly beaten or sadistically assaulted -by parents or guardians. Instruments of abuse have ranged from bare fists to belt buckles, from knives to electrical cords, from hot pokers to open flames, from matches to cigarette lighters, from bottles to broom handles, from hot liquids or pans to appliances and chair legs. Children are daily brought into hospitals, having been beaten, burned, raped, stabbed, strangled, electrically shocked, stamped on, or thrown violently against walls. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library