Modern medicine has enabled citizens of wealthy, industrialized nations to forget that children once routinely died in ...
(Thomas Worth via George P. Landow/Victorian Web) Modern medicine has enabled citizens of wealthy, industrialized nations to forget that children once routinely died in shocking numbers.
Victorian novels chronicle the terrible grief of losing children. Depicting the cruelty of diseases largely unfamiliar today, they also warn against being lulled into thinking that child deaths ...
A report has found that in 2023 children in out-of-home care were being expelled at five times the rate of other children and ...
Children were familiar with disease risks ... filled with “the dread of seeing a corpse.” In the chill of a Victorian bedroom, she slips under Helen’s blankets and tries to stifle her ...
Image via Thomas Worth via George P. Landow/Victorian Web. Modern medicine has enabled citizens of wealthy, industrialized ...
The Commission for Children and Young People made 47 recommendations to address the issue, but it says the Victorian government has not implemented any of them. Jackie was two years old when she ...
Victorian novels chronicle the terrible grief of losing children. Depicting the cruelty of diseases largely unfamiliar today, they also warn against being lulled into thinking that child deaths ...