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Over 350 doctors, lawyers, social workers and laymen attended the symposium, organized by Boston's Children's Advocates Inc., to discuss such topics as Legal Issues in Child Abuse and Violence in Society...
President Horner took a personal interest in the symposium. Radcliffe was one of its co-sponsors, and Harvard provided the Science Center free. Susan S. Lyman, acting dean of the Radcliffe Institute, was an introductory speaker...
...Child abuse has been neglected in this country," Nancy Poor, a member of the Symposium Committee, said yesterday. "It is closeted like homosexuality...
Over 70 per cent of the people at the symposium were women. Many child abusers are working mothers, and a majority of the social workers in the United States are women...
...primary purpose of the symposium, its organizers said, was to educate people to the problem of child abuse. "Child abuse is the symptom of a much larger problem in American society," Michael Turner, a social worker, said. "The child himself is not the problem; children are helpless...