Child Called It

... Book Review How is child abuse explained? This paper will help explain characteristics associated with child abuse and that applied to the books A Child Called "It" and The Lost Boy. The main points that will be discussed are conflict theory, symbolic interaction theory, normalizing abuse, and the Power and Control diagram. The history of abuse is broken up into three period, indifference, discovery, and preoccupation. In the indifference period animals had more protection than children. Society today is in the preoccupation period and reporting child abuse laws have been in place since the 1960's. The book A Child Called "It" starts out tell the end of the horrific journey that David Pelzer had to endure during his mother's abuse. One morning at school David was examined by the school nurse for signs of abuse, as she did many times before. This particular morning the school nurse decides that the abuse

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