著者
岩間 麻子
出版者
一般社団法人 日本社会福祉学会
雑誌
社会福祉学 (ISSN:09110232)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.39, no.1, pp.112-128, 1998-06-30 (Released:2018-07-20)

Lately the issue of child abuse is becoming a serious social problem. Child abuse is the complicated problem which is caused by many factors. It is likely to be considered a very contemporary problem. On the other hand, child abuse in prewar days is thought to be a labour problem and to be quite different from the modern one. Indeed, the labour problem of child was the center of child abuse in those days. But children were abused by their carers in the family, too. And it was the first time that the maltreatment of children in the family was recognized as child abuse. This paper deals with two points about child abuse in the prewar days. One is the reason why child abuse in the family existed at that time. The other is the background that the maltreatment of children in the family was recognizedas child abuse and social problem.