ABSTRACT
In early 1960, Dr. C. H. Kempe introduced the term battered child syndrome. Society, after many failed attempts, began to accept that the majority of child abuse was not committed by strangers, nor was it a problem only for those at the lower end of the socioeconomic educational strata. Most people guilty of abusing children are not strangers; they are parents, family members, or other caretakers in the home.
