Abuse or Punishment?

By Marie-Aimée Cliche
Translated by W. Donald Wilson
Subjects: Family & Relationships, Domestic Violence, Language Arts & Disciplines, Translation, Child Abuse
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

At one time, the use of corporal punishment by parents in child-rearing was considered normal, but in the second half of the nineteenth century this begin to change, in Quebec as well as the rest of the ...

Cruel but Not Unusual

Edited by Ramona Alaggia & Cathy Vine
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Sociology, Family & Relationships, Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, Law, Child Advocacy

Violence in families and intimate relationships affects a significant proportion of the population—from very young children to the elderly—with far-reaching and often devastating consequences. Cruel ...

Shattering the Illusion

By Tracy J. Trothen
Subjects: Law, Child Advocacy, Religion, Family & Relationships, Child Abuse

Shattering the Illusion is the first book to gather and comparatively analyze policies addressing child sexual abuse complaints in a selection of religious institutions in Canada. Although there is a substantial ...

Religious Dimensions of Child and Family Life

Edited by Harold Coward & Philip Cook
Subjects: Family & Relationships, Child Abuse, Religion

When the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) was unanimously approved by the UN General Assembly on November 20, 1989, it was widely heralded as a landmark in children’s advocacy, and provided ...