Around 90,000 young people pass through the care system every year. ibid.
Young people in care are some of the most vulnerable in our society, and mixed with the care system that’s neglecting their emotional needs can create a lot of angry young people. ibid.
If you grow up in care, you are more likely to go to prison than you are to go to university. ibid.
In any human encounter ... two people look one another in the eye; this happens first when the baby is about six weeks old and goes on for the rest of his life. We notice this is the one thing that autistic children don’t do. Horizon: The Lonely Children, BBC 1966
A general picture of inattention and non-communication is common with the autistic child. ibid.
Human development is so complicated that it’s almost impossible to find cause and effect but there’s an area now where scientists can be specific. In all of us there are two urges and they can be seen most clearly when we are aged two – there’s attachment behaviour, the innate urge that makes a child run back to its mother and keep close, and there’s the urge to explore, curiosity. These two urges are in conflict. Horizon: If at First You Don’t Succeed ... You Don’t Succeed, BBC 1971
Mother: It’s because I’m shaking her. Horizon: Battered Baby: From Generation to Generation, BBC 1986
Children came with a wide variety of behaviour and disorders and symptoms: some were homicidal, quite a few were suicidal, some were non-speaking and mute, others were widely delusional, all had a most traumatic history behind them which explained their behaviour. Although it was sometimes difficult to ascertain their story. Horizon: Bruno Bettelheim: The Man Who Cared for Children, BBC 1987
Now psychiatrists in Britain are using methods very similar to that used on the pigeon to get children to be obedient. Horizon: Breaking in Children, BBC 1981
In the UK behaviour therapy is unpopular in spite of the fat that in America it’s widely used to help parents cope with disobedient but otherwise normal children. ibid.
In this area of South London alone two small children were beaten or starved to death by their parents in the past two years. The vast majority of battering or abusing parents were themselves battered and abused as children. Horizon: Newpin: A Lifeline, BBC 1989
So often families feel that the best intervention they can give is unconditional love ... and that turns out to be the incorrect mode when dealing with the child. Horizon: Taming the Problem Child, Dr Ron Federici, BBC 2001
Mother: They don’t listen to a word I say. I need some help with disciplining them. Horizon, Little Angels, BBC 2004
All parents want to give their children a great start in life. But knowing how best to do that or where to turn for advise isn’t so easy. Carrot or Stick? A Horizon Guide to Raising Kids, BBC 2011
The post-war period: parents at the time were a tough breed shaped by the strict Victorian-style values of their own upbringing, and the hardship and austerity of the war years. These parents were all about hard discipline. ibid.
Attachment theory as it’s known still forms the basis of our thinking about how important it is for mother and baby to have a good bond. ibid.
In the seventies doctors came up with a new explanation of why some babies with no physical injuries developed sudden brain damage: they called it shaken baby syndrome, and suggested parents were the culprits. ibid.
Increasing awareness of abuse passing down generations turned the spotlight on mothers in a new way, not just to blame them but to try and help them too. ibid.
In the 1970s and ’80s the rise in new liberal ideas about discipline left a lot of more ordinary families struggling to manage their children’s naughty behaviour. ibid.
Scientists believe a lack of the brain chemical dopamine makes it hard for children with ADHD to control their impulses. ibid.
Scientists now think ADHD has a strong genetic component and can often run in families. ibid.
8Some might call it bribery, but an array of reward techniques like this are increasingly used by schools to motivate kids. ibid.
If children in the first two or three years get the kind of support and affection ... they become increasingly confident and able to make use of the world as they find it. Dr John Bowlby, Tavistock Institute
The biggest surprise was the discrepancy in achievement between the progressive and formal classroom. Somewhat contrary to our expectations the findings clearly favoured formal schools. Dr Neville Bennett, Lancaster University
Low ability boys in formal classrooms did much worse than low ability boys in informal classrooms. Dr Neville Bennett
Her young son was kidnapped by his father and taken to South Korea. Taken From Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story, 2011
Lee had fallen behind in his payments of child support. ibid.
No-one in Tiffany’s family liked Lee. ibid.
American Association of Missing Children; he has found over 130 missing children. ibid.
He [Lee] was indicted on charges of International Parental Kidnapping and making false statements in a passport application. ibid.
Back in 1984 US Customs had seized some child pornography addressed from the Midlands in the mail to Arnold Friedman. Capturing the Friedmans, John McDermott, postal inspector, 2003
The first arrested was Arnold Friedman, a retired school-teacher, who was charged with sodomising boys aged eight to eleven. ibid. local news report
Eighteen years old Jesse Friedman also stands accused of sex abuse. ibid. local news report
‘I had a good family, right? Where did this come from?’ ibid. Elaine
There was a dirth of physical evidence. ibid. rozzer
After spending six weeks in jail Arnold is allowed home under house arrest to prepare for his trial. ibid. caption
‘I don’t believe your father because your father has never been honest with me.’ ibid. mother to son, taped argument
Inside, he pleaded guilty to more than forty counts of sodomy, sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child. ibid. news report
‘They said it was all my fault ... And then I went berserk. I had been betrayed.’ ibid. Elaine
No-one stood more respected in his community than Father Ivan Payne. A master of deception he terrorised children for three decades – the true scale of his crimes remains unknown. Evil Up Close s1e5: Ivan the Terrible
In 1969 the newly ordained priest Ivan Payne begins working at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin. ibid.
The Church moves him to a parish of his own. However, the Church keeps secret those stories it has heard. ibid.
Finally in 1996 the police are brought in. ibid.
His Church masters had effectively allowed him to serial offend. ibid.
Nothing suggested that the bubbly little girl would become one of Britain’s most reviled paedophiles, taking hundreds of indecent images of toddlers in her care. Evil Up Close s2e6: Vanessa George, 2013
Vanessa began to disappear for hours on end into a tiny cupboard under the stairs where the family kept their computer. ibid.
The images George was transmitting were sent to this man – Colin Blanchard. ibid.
The name of the next mother to be uncovered as a paedophile was Angela Allen. ibid.
An online group trying to outdo each other in depravity. ibid.
She had grown up a happy child in a stable family. ibid.
Exposure investigates allegations that away from the cameras Jimmy Savile was far from a genial eccentric. He stands accused of being a sexual predator. Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, ITV 2012
Both say they contracted a sexually transmitted disease from him. ibid.
14-year-old singer Coleen Nolan had her own unpleasant experience with Savile on the show. ibid.
He was using his celebrity status to gain access to teenage girls. ibid.
Savile’s warped attitude to sexual abuse. ibid.
We now know Jimmy Savile was a predatory paedophile for more than forty years. Many of his victims say they were attacked when they were at their most vulnerable. Exposure Update: The Jimmy Savile Investigation, ITV 2012
The Jimmy Savile investigation: he is now reviled as a paedophile … a mighty fall. ibid.
More victims came forward. ibid.