Abstract

This chapter discusses the intended to look more closely at the two aspects of men’s interactions with children and to suggest if and how it is possible to develop new kinds of relationships. Child protection is an issue that developed societies currently focus much attention, concern and resources on. Child abuse was created as an issue of community concern in the 1970s and 1980s, largely emanating from the work of feminists challenging the subordinate place of women in society and in the family. Acknowledgment of the feminist construction of men as responsible for child abuse has had some consequences for the relationships of non-abusing men with children and society as a whole. A side effect has been to cast a shadow over the interaction of all men with all children. The data on male child abusers are recognised as incomplete and it may never be possible to get accurate information because of difficulties defining abuse and substantiating allegations.

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