historical of child abuse

A recent study funded by Parton (2005), about the history of child abuse. He said one of the causes is violence in the family. According to Parton, in the patriarchal family system, violence towards wives and children was seen as mainly a private matter, and even in the latter half of the twentieth century police were reluctant to get involved in violence within a marriage, classifying incidents as 'just a domestic'. As women and children have been seen as individuals with rights, their right to safety from violence has also been recognised.

        In other hands, Ferri, Bynner and Wadsworth (2003) also said about the historiy of child abuse which are caused by changing family structures. According to him, divorce and birth outside marriage can cause their children to be neglected without their birth parents. Between 1961 and 1999, has been shown that lone-parent households increased from two percent to seven percent of all household.

        Beside that, the history of child abuse are described in Children Act in 1948. This legislation set up child care department in local authorities and created the social work role of 'child care officer'. It was a part of the post-war creation of a welfare state and embodied a belief that the state should take a positive and supportive approach to the family to ensure children were given the appropriate conditions in which to develop by Parton (1991).

        Furthermore, Winnicots (1951) describes when parenting becomes abusive. He introduces a concept of the good enough parents offers a more realistic and achievable standard for parents to aspire to. Views on 'good enough' parenting vary over time and between cultures. Even within one culture at a specific time, families vary a great deal, at the micro level, in how they express affection, administer discipline or deal with anger. There can be major difficulties, in practise in agreeing on the boundary between what is acceptable and what is unacceptable.