CRUELTY TO CHILDREN
INCREASE IN BRITAIN. LONDON, July 14. Instances of violence to children which came under the notice of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in the past year numbered 4208—the highest in the society’s history, says the qjmual report. Even if full allowance is made for overcrowding and unemployment, which bring great irritation in the lives of people so situated, there is cause for wonderment and concern.
Lack of control of temper figures in horrible stories of sufferings of individual children. Sometimes there is a sinister history of calculated barbarity. The report adds that there was a definite increase during the war of unruly children, who are now fathers and mothers.
The question thus arises whether the unsatisfactory bringing up of war children is showing its effect in this way. A large increase has occurred in the number of cases of parents who lock children in rooms while they visit picture theatres and other places of amusement.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19861, 26 July 1934, Page 11
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163CRUELTY TO CHILDREN Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19861, 26 July 1934, Page 11
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