The Victorian country child

The Place of the rubaiyat in victorian Poetry

Children in Dickens ’ s

He was the most popular of the 19 century English novelists, the quintessential Victorian author one who is fondly remembered and read even today, by innumerable readers around the globe. Here is a small personal tribute to Charles Dickens, my favourite social novelist. In his novels, Dickens depicted the disorder, squalor, blight, decay, and the human misery of a modern industrial city.It was ...

Obstacles to Prosecution in Child Sexual Assault Cases: A Preliminary Report on Some Victorian Data*

t is commonly assumed by people working in the field that even if a sexual assault on a child does not get reported to the police, the chances of the offender being prosecuted are very small. According to a former coordinator of the Victorian Community Policing Squad, Inspector Bob Lovell, 'there were only about a dozen successful prosecutions as a result of 177 reports of sexual assault agains...

Developing an Exploratory Framework Linking Australian Aboriginal Peoples’ Connection to Country and Concepts of Wellbeing

Aboriginal people across Australia suffer significant health inequalities compared with the non-Indigenous population. Evidence indicates that inroads can be made to reduce these inequalities by better understanding social and cultural determinants of health, applying holistic notions of health and developing less rigid definitions of wellbeing. The following article draws on qualitative resear...

Secrecy, family relationships and the welfare of children born with the assistance of donor sperm: Developments in research, law and practice

AN INCREASING NUMBER OF babies are being born using donated sperm, where the resulting child is genetically related to the mother but not to the father who raises the child. This chapter discusses a tendency towards secrecy among parents of donorconceived children, and developments in law and practice designed to ensure children born through donated sperm know how they were conceived and have a...