... Nature Degeneracy Emotional abuse Talk as we will and think as we will of the freedom of the will, of moral sense and of moral responsibility … we cannot escape from the great overhanging cloud of hereditary influences, the fact that moral and intellectual traits follow down a race from father to son...

...The concluding chapter provides an anatomy of child abuse from the survivors evidence. It explores four dimensions of child abuse: physical abuse, neglect, emotional abuse and sexual abuse. The chapter suggests the physical abuse was endemic but often linked to other forms of abuse. Arnold Bruce...