Children in Danger

In the early 1970s 'baby battering' accounted for an estimated 700 child deaths a year in Britain. First published in 1974, the special virtue of this book was that, apart from being the first fully-researched book on the subject, the author was able to look at baby battering as an outsider, seeing the picture as a whole.

Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. A Mother's Story 2. What is Baby Battering? 3. The Violent End of the Spectrum 4. The Social Worker 5. The Social Worker and the NSPCC 6. The Police 7. The Medical Point of View 8. The Parents 9. What Can be Done to Help? Bibliography.