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A national commission of inquiry into child abuse called yesterday for a fundamental shift of emphasis and resources towards the prevention of child abuse, and for independent commissioners to promote children's rights and welfare. There should also be a new minister for children,...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Two-year-olds participating in a writing exercise Tuesday afternoon in the North Side is one of the latest results of a child-care rating system in St. Joseph. Asked to write about a story they had just heard read aloud, Li'l...

The autobiography of Dave Pelzer, "A Child Called It," told his story of growing up in a family of two alcoholic parents and being beaten and tortured by his mother and neglected by his father.

A Child Called It by David Pelzer is an aspiring book that shows determination through a little boy's eyes as he tells an unforgettable story of the many abuses he suffered at the hands of his alcoholic mother and the averted eyes of his neglectful father. As a young child only his dreams barely kept him alive and motivated to go on and fight stronger. His alcoholic mother found many "games" to play with him as a way of torture and she rarely gave him the luxury of food, which would only be scraps

In David Pelzer's "A Child Called It," he tells about how his mother abused him emotionally and physically and how he was socially isolated.