This is Your Child

The Story of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

Anne Allen, Arthur Morton

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040818237
• Subtopic: Social History
• Index: Social Sciences

Originally published in 1961, when the NSPCC played a very real and important part in the Welfare State. This is Your Child, written by the Director of the Society, and a Justice of the Peace, sketches the history of the Society and gives a moving account of the work it does in relieving neglect and cruelty to children, and in helping parents driven to their wits' end by domestic problems.

It shows the way in which an Inspector approaches the many different problems which he encounters in his day's work. It deals also with the Society's extreme sanction of prosecution, which is used only in about two per cent of the cases which come to its attention.

The many pictures show dramatically the conditions the Society relieves, and the almost miraculous changes in maltreated children who come under its notice.

In existence for over 100 years and still striving to make a difference, the NSPCC believes 'every child is worth fighting for'.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Contents
• Plates
• Preface
• Chapter One Court Scene
• Chapter Two Benjamin Waugh and the Founding of the Society
• Chapter Three The Intermediate Years
• Chapter Four Neglect
• Chapter Five More Neglect
• Chapter Six Physical Cruelty
• Chapter Seven Mental Cruelty
• Chapter Eight Coming for Advice
• Chapter Nine The Ways Inspectors Work
• Chapter Ten Legal Policy
• Appendix I: Organisation and Finance
• Appendix II Women Visitors
• Appendix III The League of Pity
• Appendix IV The 1908 and 1933 Acts: Children Act, 1908
• Appendix V: Northern Ireland
• Appendix VI Refusal of Parent to Consent to Medical Treatment in Cases of Emergency: Counsel's Opinion
• Index