ABSTRACT
A shocking number of children today are subjected from an early age to the most unspeakable violence: mistreatment, abuse, torture, involuntary and voluntary manslaughter. As in the case of many disasters, child abuse occurs unexpectedly despite an obvious build-up, as nobody sees anything happening. The perpetrators trigger a cycle of violence which they soon lose control of because no child can resist them. It seems that violence demands still more violence in what is often an endless cycle. The relationship of adults to their child can be perceived in their own speech. Abuse can begin in different ways. The automatic, loveless removal of a child from one family to another bodes no good for the child when the family is just a patchwork of people, organized for utilitarian reasons rather than by affection and love.
