1. Advocating for children: Charles Dickens.
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Gunderman, Richard B.
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GOVERNMENT policy , *POOR people , *SOCIAL problems , *STREET children , *POOR children , *SPOUSES , *LITERARY criticism , *CHILDREN'S rights , *HISTORY - Abstract
One of the most effective advocates for children was also one of the greatest writers in the history of the English language: Charles Dickens. Physicians seeking an understanding of what poverty and exploitation look like from a child's point of view could hardly find richer sources of insight than such Dickens novels as I Oliver Twist i , I David Copperfield i , I Bleak House i and I Little Dorrit i . The educational worth of Dickens' works is undiminished by time, and it has even been suggested that works such as I Oliver Twist i could serve today as a textbook of child abuse [[10]]. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2020
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