Familiar Violence by Heather Montgomery

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/226652 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Familiar Violence Author: Heather Montgomery Narrator: Jennifer M. Dixon Format: mp3 Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins Release date: 12-10-24 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Child Abuse Publisher's Summary: Child abuse casts a long shadow over the history of childhood. Across the centuries there are numerous accounts of children being beaten, neglected, sexually assaulted, or even killed by those closest to them. This book explores this darker side of childhood history, looking at what constituted cruelty towards children in the past and at the social responses towards it. Focusing primarily on England, it is a history of violence against children in their own homes, covering a large timeframe which extends from medieval times to the present.