GILBERT, Chief Judge.
The nation in the early 1970's "discovered" child abuse and neglect. Discovery was not occasioned by the sudden appearance of those two social aberrations but rather because society was awakened to the enormity of the problem. We have come a long way from "the [ancient] Roman laws [that] gave the father a power of life and death over his children."
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