Articles on Child Abuse, Including: Psychohistory, Child Sacrifice, Lloyd Demause, Alice Miller (Psychologist), Early Infanticidal Childrearing, World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools, Mommie Dearest, Andrew Vachss

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