Childhood Denied

Throughout history, violence against children has taken every possible form (physical, emotional, psychological, sexual, neglect, and child labor), at times adopting quite strange shapes. He went on to say that in ancient times, even the right to life had to be conferred by a rite; before that, a kid with no rights might be disposed of as casually as an aborted fetus.
Throughout much of history, adult-adolescent sexual interaction was not only permitted but often the standard; adult-child se...