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Abusing Children for a Living: Protecting children from abuse by professionals, Part One

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

Chris Goddard
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Extract

Five years ago, in one of my first contributions to this space at the back of what was then called Australian Child and Family Welfare, I wrote a piece on the abuse of children by those in positions of trust and responsibility. The article, ‘What you see depends on where you stand, what you want to see and what you want to tell others you have seen’, (Goddard 1988) was prompted by two events in my life.

Type
Not the last word: point and counterpoint
Information
Children Australia , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , 1993 , pp. 41 - 46
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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