In 1889 Pauline Kergomard (1838-1925) gave a speech to the International Congress of Women's Charitable Organizations and Institutions in which she explained how the French Association of Child Rescue defined the physical and mental abuse of children and outlined its activities.

Abused (children) are:

Children who are the subjects of habitual and excelsive physical mistreatment;
Children who, as a result of criminal negligence by their parents, are habitually deprived of proper care;
Children habitually involved in mendacity, delinquency, or dissipation;
Children employed in dangerous occupations;
Children who are physically abandoned.

Children who are morally endangered are:

Children whose parents live in notoriously uproarious and scandalous state;
Children whose parents are habitually in a state of drunkeness;
Children whose parents live by mendacity;
Children whose parents have been convicted of crimes;
Children whose parents have been convicted of theft, habitually encouraging the...