Victorian Times/Child Abuse

1. Child Labor Parental Discipline Sexual Abuse Family Structure Abuse Victorian Times/Child Abuse

2. Child Labor • Work-houses • Factories • Chimney sweeps • Newspaper sellers • Matchmakers • Street sweepers • These are all jobs for children nine and up

3. Factories • Children working instead of parents. • Danger • Fatigue • Abuse • Hunger

4. Sexual Abuse • Child Prostitution • Erotic paedophilia (love of children) • Psycho-sexual perversion.

5. Family Structure Abuse • Reverse roles within the family • Finances • Starvation • Disease

6. Parental Abuse • This child was abused and raped and left for dead • In Victorian times children were also abused in the same manner. • 1855 A French governess, Celestine Doudet, was discovered to be torturing five English sisters, with the approval of their father, in order to prevent them from masturbating. • <http://www.faws.org/childhood/Bo-Ch/Child-Abuse.html>

7. HouseHold Words

8. HouseHold Words • This, Saint Felix, the Spaniards say, was • painted with milk and blood, "con leche y • sangre;" if you prick it, it would bleed; • the child has fed on roses. The old saint, if • I remember right, is on his knees to the • little unconscious child, who is innocent and • playful as any bantling can be. And • while the little creature, about whom there is • an air of divinity and command, expressed, • we know not how, is painted with such • evident tenderness and love, the aged saint, • whose flesh is sunk and ribbed and grey, is a • model of intellectual, worn old age. The

9. End Results of Child Abuse • In the Victorian times • In today’s world

10. In Victorian Times • http://wwwyoutube.com/watch?v=07hNTSNDzaE • http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1440&bih=719&q=Victorian+times+battered+child&gbv=2&oq=Victorian+times+battered+child&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=5211l12449l0l12995l30l30l0l15l3l0l172l1499l0.11l11l0&gs_l=img.3...5211l12449l0l12995l30l30l0l15l3l0l172l1499l0j11l11l0.frgbld.#hl=en&gbv=2&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=Child+abuse+children&oq=Child+abuse+children&aq=f&aqi=g1g-m1g-mS5&aql=&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=1569926l1584683l0l1585650l33l33l2l2l2l0l328l3528l0.9.8.1l18l0&gs_l=img.3..0j0i5j0i5i24l5.1569926l1584683l0l1585650l33l33l2l2l2l0l328l3528l0j9j8j1l18l0.frgbld.&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=899536553db6301a&biw=1440&bih=719

11. In Today’s World • http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1440&bih=719&q=Victorian+times+battered+child&gbv=2&oq=Victorian+times+battered+child&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=5211l12449l0l12995l30l30l0l15l3l0l172l1499l0.11l11l0&gs_l=img.3...5211l12449l0l12995l30l30l0l15l3l0l172l1499l0j11l11l0.frgbld.#hl=en&gbv=2&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=Child+abuse+children&oq=Child+abuse+children&aq=f&aqi=g1g-m1g-mS5&aql=&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=1569926l1584683l0l1585650l33l33l2l2l2l0l328l3528l0.9.8.1l18l0&gs_l=img.3..0j0i5j0i5i24l5.1569926l1584683l0l1585650l33l33l2l2l2l0l328l3528l0j9j8j1l18l0.frgbld.&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=899536553db6301a&biw=1440&bih=719

12. Final Result • Watch film! • This child died from abuse.

13. Work Cited • Defining Abuse in Historical Context http://www.faqs.org/childhood/Bo-Ch/Child-Abuse.html • Christensen, VR. Childhood in the Victorian era. Wikipedia.com. 27June 2011 • Victorian Times Child Abuse. Google.com • Child abuse dead children. Google.com • Youtube. http://wwwyoutube.com/watch?v=07hNTSNDzaE