PEDIATRICS Vol. 39 No. 4 April 1967, pp. 625
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I don't think we need Dr. Fontana to comment that "the children battered by society" are the responsibility of everyone—pediatrician, lawyer, businessman, carpenter, farmer, or what have you. As pediatricians we may have a little more immediate alertness and a little more immediate usefulness toward the child and family in which maltreatment can be recognized, and even prevented. Our responsibility for man's inhumanity to man is (I hope) that of all humanity. Just as "no man is an island, and everyman's death diminishes me," is not every hardship inflicted by humanity upon children as though it had been done to our own child—whatever our occupation?