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Online Gutenberg Library: Some conditions of child life in england

mikejee

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This is not directly concerned particularly with birmingham . but was " A Paper read by Rev. Benjamin Waugh at the Meeting of the Baptist Union, Thursday, October 10, 1889, at Birmingham" and was later issued as a pamphlet by the NSPCC. It was just become available online through Gutenburg at https://www.gutenberg.org/files/31888/31888-h/31888-h.htm . I would say that it is rather upsetting in parts, but you do seem to still read of this sort of thing in the papers even today.
Mike
 
very interesting mike, and horrific of course. thankfully its very rare today but as you say it still happens :(
 
It makes horrific reading Mike, thankfully child cruelty is not on such a scale today, but only recently there has been the sad cases of BABY P, and Khyra Izak here in Birmingham being starved to death under the noses of the Social Services and Education Dept., despite the teachers at the school she and her siblings attended doing their best to get action, which if taken could have saved her.
 
Some of the story's in the last few years concerning the murder and torture of these poor little souls, begger's believe I think there is more undiscovered and unreported. It is still alive and thriving in 2010 Britain.
 
1889 And it makes you think,how much have things changed,a few weeks ago a couple appeared in court charged with starving their child to death,she had been seen by Drs Social workers,teachers had shown interest,and yet she died,The boy referred to as baby P had been seen by Social workers Drs,and yet he died,They don't die or get beaten in cold cellars, or bedrooms with no curtains, but still 100yrs on,what has changed
 
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