The Church was the motivating institution behind the first group, the Boys' Brigade. All of these new groups were uniformed groups. It is not entirely clear why uniforms came to be an consist element of these groups but appears to reflect a combination of a young boy's desire to wear a ...
Children have been ill-treated by adults throughout history, but it is only occasionally that concern about the issue has gathered any momentum.1In order to assess the significance of recent developments it is important to locate the social reactions to children’s problems in a wider historical ...