Children: what the Dickens to do with them?

By Sally Pryor
Updated April 18 2018 - 11:13pm, first published December 13 2012 - 3:00am

MODERN parents who despair of still-dependent adult children should spare a thought for Charles Dickens, worried about his offspring growing up in poverty after his own childhood had been so, well, Dickensian.

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