Getting rid of them
Tom Shippey, 31 August 1989
Betrayal: Child Exploitation in Today’s World
edited by Caroline Moorehead.
Barrie and Jenkins, 192 pp., £15, March 1989,0 7126 2170 9 Show More
edited by Caroline Moorehead.
Barrie and Jenkins, 192 pp., £15, March 1989,
The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
by John Boswell.
Allen Lane, 488 pp., £20, April 1989,0 7139 9019 8 Show More
by John Boswell.
Allen Lane, 488 pp., £20, April 1989,
“... sexual exploitation of children in the Philippines, the one on abused children in Great Britain by Sarah Hobson (consisting largely of taped statements). It is hard, though, to take as seriously the exposé, by the editor again, of children working in ‘sweatshops’ in Naples. No doubt the children are underpaid, and no doubt they play truant from ... ”