The Battered Child

The April, 1973, issue of Pediatrics included as a 40-page supplement the proceedings of a Symposium on Child Abuse, sponsored by the Medical Society of the County of New York. Since the syndrome is a disease not of children but of adults and indeed of Society, the subject warrants the concern of all professionals who administer health care.Such abuse in one form or another is an old and sad story beginning in pre-history with infanticide. Child neglect and the child labor of an increasingly industrial society resulted in the founding of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to . . .