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2. Oliver Twist, the novel by Charles Dickens, is a
textbook of abuse, finds an article in Archives
of Disease in Childhood.
The novel charts the progress of the
eponymous hero, an orphaned boy who starts
life in a workhouse, and after being part of the
notorious Fagin's gang, is adopted by a middle
class gent.
3. But according to a consultant pediatrician at Sheffield
Children's Hospital, Dickens describes many categories of
child abuse, and identifies risk factors which modern
research has now classified as hallmarks of abusing
parents.
Institutional abuse comes first, with Oliver's mother
being attended by a drunk midwife and an uncaring
doctor. Children in the workhouse to which Oliver is sent
are neglected and practically starved, while being denied
any shred of human love or affection. Oliver is locked in
a small dark room after having the temerity to "ask for
more" food. The workhouse children were also physically
abused.
4. Dr Brennan says that the recognized consequences of
abuse, including absconding, passivity, depression, poor
self image and vulnerability to corruption by anyone
showing them what appears to be love, are very well
illustrated by the text.
Dickens also managed to identify all the now accepted
parental risk factors for abuse: substance abuse,
including alcohol, domestic violence, mental health
problems and animal abuse. And he also describes the
domestic abuse perpetrated against both sexes in the
novel. Nancy is abused by Bill Sykes her pimp and Mr.
Bumble is abused by Mrs. Coney, the superintendant of
the female workhouse, two months after their marriage.