Citation

Mause L. Sex. Addict. Compuls. 1994; 1(1): 77-91.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/10720169408400029

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Psychohistorical study of the history of childhood has provided extensive evidence that childhood in the past was routinely filled with terror, neglect and abuse-both physical and emotional. Adequate parenting is a late historical achievement, and most countries in the world continue to severely abuse most children even today. Even in America, about half of all children are sexually molested, and the rates are even higher in non-Western nations. The traumatic effects of this widespread abuse is the source of the periodic wars and social violence that have been the hallmark of mankind until now.