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Learning To Listen: To Young People, Parents, Perpetrators

Jul 17, 2015

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Peter Sidebotham

in Child Abuse Review

I don’t want to talk about it… It’s too horrible. But in the end I became so frightened of her I used to start shaking when she came into the room. So said Matilda’s teacher, Miss Honey, in Roald Dahl’s classic children’s book (Dahl and Blake, 1989, p. 198). In a simple children’s story, Dahl…
Child abuse in fact and fiction: Seminar notes from ethics and children’s literature event, Warwick University, 2015

Feb 14, 2015

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Peter Sidebotham

in Academic

All children, except one, grow up. So said JM Barrie in the opening words of Peter Pan. Only it isn’t true. The reality is that far too many children never get the opportunity to grow up; or have to grow up before their time; or find…