Dark Secrets of Childhood: Media Power, Child Abuse and Public Scandals

Over the last few decades, public opinion has been traumatised by revelations of child abuse on a mass scale. It has become the major human rights story of the 21st century in Western society.

This ground-breaking book explores the relationship between the media, child abuse and shifting adult–child power relations which,

in Western countries, has spawned an ever-expanding range of laws, policies and procedures introduced to address the ‘explosion’

of interest in the issue of child abuse.

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