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Tables of Contents for The Politics of Child Abuse in America
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Abbreviations
xiii
 
Introduction
3
10
The Cultural Landscape of Child Abuse in the United States
13
33
The Paradox of Child Abuse
18
5
The San Diego Experience
19
4
The Child Abuse Industry
23
10
Psychotherapy and the Child Abuse Industry
24
5
The Legal Industry
29
4
The Unraveling of Child Abuse Policy
33
7
Conclusion
40
6
Child Abuse as a Social Problem: The Emergence of the Child Savers
46
36
The Social Context of the Child Rescue Movement
48
3
The Mary Ellen Legend and the Rise of the Child Rescue Movement
51
6
The Legend
52
5
The Makings of a Movement
57
10
The Role of the Press
57
1
The Influence of an Outraged Public
58
1
The Anticruelty Movement in the Context of Other Social Movements
59
2
The Rise of Judicial Patriarchy
61
1
Elbridge T. Gerry and the NYSPCC
62
5
Central Themes in the Anticruelty Movement
67
7
Social Control
67
3
Parents, the State, and the Rescue of Children
70
2
Differences Regarding the Role of the SPCCs
72
2
Conclusion
74
8
The Decline and Rediscovery of Child Abuse, 1920-1960
82
25
Early Conflict Among ``Child Rescuers''
83
6
The NYSPCC and the Gerry Paradigm
84
1
The Challenge to the Gerry Paradigm
85
1
Who Should Do Protective Work, and What Should Be Its Functions?
86
2
Feminism and the Anticruelty Movement
88
1
Social Work and Child Welfare
89
3
Changing Nomenclature, Changing Definitions
89
1
Disillusionment with the Juvenile Court
90
2
Child Welfare Agency Structure and Practice
92
5
Organizational Pattern of Children's Agencies
92
2
Distinctons Between Child and Family Welfare
94
1
The Impact of Psychoanalytic Theory
95
1
Social Work's Escape from Authority
96
1
The Impact of Economic and Social Conditions After 1930
97
2
Conclusion
99
8
From the ``Battered Child'' Syndrome to the ``Battered Psyche'' Syndrome: Rediscovering Child Abuse in the 1960s and Beyond
107
28
The Rise of the American Welfare State
108
4
The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974
112
5
Ideological Convergence
117
2
The Family Preservation Model
119
3
The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980
122
4
The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993
126
3
Conclusion
129
6
The Breakdown of the Child Abuse System
135
36
Researching Child Abuse
135
7
Child Abuse and Political Correctness
142
9
Maintaining the Myth of Classlessnes
149
2
Funding for Child Abuse and Neglect
151
6
The Panacea of Family Preservation
155
2
Service Delivery Problems in the Child Abuse System
157
6
Social Work Training and Child Protective Services
158
3
Screening, Investigation, and the Provision of Service
161
2
AFDC, Substance Abuse, and the Breakdown of the Child Abuse System
163
2
Conclusion
165
6
Restructuring Child Abuse Services: The Children's Authority
171
13
The Children's Authority
173
11
The Structure of the Children's Authority
174
1
Funding the Children's Authority
174
2
The Social Mandate and the Span of Authority
176
1
Administrative Organization
177
7
Conclusion
184
6
Index
190