Le traitement politique de la maltraitance infantile

Abstract

The political handling of child abuse. First highlighted by doctors, the issue of child abuse has finally become a social concern of primary importance. It has been the subject of public action under combined pressure from the media and specialist charities. This paper attempts to analyse the status of this issue in the political area. Almost absent from electoral campaigns, the theme of violence done to children remains on the whole confined to a minor position despite the strong emotions it can arise. The paradox may be explained by the difficulty of political parties in differentiating their doctrines and thus offering voters distinct answers in this matter. On a broader scale, there are current doubts about the fight against child abuse which make the field an exemplary case for current reconstitution in the field of social intervention.

Full adoption in England and Wales and France: a comparative history of law and practice (1926–2015)

“…Their fear was that reporting children 'in danger' would place their function as executers of 'social control', or even as 'informers' and 'moral guardians', ahead of their mission to protect children. Although nowadays French social workers are less reluctant to report children in danger, specialist and public debates on whether the child-family tie should be maintained show that lawmakers, perhaps under the influence of family pressure groups, feel some reluctance to make maltreated children available for adoption (Vabre, 2005). This unwillingness might be due partly to their attachment to anonymous birth, which is seen not only as a woman's right but also as a way to prevent infanticide.…”