“Child abuse thrives in the shadows of privacy and secrecy. It lives by inattention.” David Bakan,Slaughter of the Innocents (1971, p. 3)
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Renitta L. Goldman is Associate Professor and Program Coordinator in Special Education, The University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Goldman is an expert on sexual and physical abuse, and the author of Silent Shame: The Sexual Abuse of Children and Youthand Children at Risk: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Child Abuse and Neglect.For further information readers may write to Dr. Renitta L. Goldman, Ph.D., 120 Education Building, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, University Station, AL 93452.
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Goldman, R.L. Recognizing child abuse and neglect in child care settings. Early Childhood Educ J 22, 12–15 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02361352
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