US - child abuse cases rise as economy falters

[November Rain]

Child abuse spikes as U.S. economy flounders

• By Jason Szep Jason Szep – Wed Apr 15, 8:12 pm ET

BOSTON (Reuters) – One 4-month-old baby was shaken so violently she needed surgery. Another 3-week-old suffered fractured ribs from abuse at home. A 9-year-old diabetic boy stopped receiving proper treatment for his condition.
Those cases reported by Boston hospitals are part of a spike in child abuse in United States during a recession that has driven some families to the brink and overwhelmed cash-strapped child-protection agencies.
"In the last three months we have twice as many severe inflicted injury cases as we did in the three months the previous year," said Allison Scobie, program director of the Child Protection Team at Boston's Children's Hospital.
Typically, her hospital handles about 1,500 such cases a year. That rose to 1,800 last year.
"We're finding that it is directly attributable to what is happening economically," she said. "Many of the hospitals around here report an increase of 20 to 30 percent of requests for consultation regarding suspected child maltreatment."...

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[blackgang]

Typically, her hospital handles about 1,500 such cases a year. That rose to 1,800 last year.

I do suppose that the numbers have nothing to do with population increases or the increase of illegal aliens either?

Could also be the weather, seems like in an extra wet and long winter in Aberdeen Washington that the suicide rates increase from the normally high count to a higher level.

[November Rain]

When I first read the article, I thought it was a load of BS, but then I figured that stress caused by lack of money could possibly make parents more short-tempered and less caring (or able to care) than usual. But, as you say, BG, it could be down to (or inclusive of) a lot of other factors, too.

[barbaro]

When I first read the article, I thought it was a load of BS, but then I figured that stress caused by lack of money could possibly make parents more short-tempered and less caring (or able to care) than usual. But, as you say, BG, it could be down to (or inclusive of) a lot of other factors, too.

There are people that are nervous. And there are also people that are now, and will be losing their homes, all of the equity in it, their cars, and just about everything else.

As Gerald Celente has said repeatedly: "when people lose everything, they 'lose it.'"

[Marmite the Dog]

When I first read the article, I thought it was a load of BS, but then I figured that stress caused by lack of money could possibly make parents more short-tempered and less caring (or able to care) than usual.

The little fuckers do their best to keep you stressed out during every waking hour as it is. I'm not surprised there aren't more cases of this type of abuse.

[barbaro]

When I first read the article, I thought it was a load of BS, but then I figured that stress caused by lack of money could possibly make parents more short-tempered and less caring (or able to care) than usual.

The little fuckers do their best to keep you stressed out during every waking hour as it is. I'm not surprised there aren't more cases of this type of abuse.

Kids can be a pain in the arse.

But there is no excuse for shaking and hitting a kids as young as described in the articles (months old).

The wealthy can hire nannies and send them off to military academies, and boarding schools.

Others have to put up a kids that can be a pain in the arse.

I like kids - but don't want any.

[billy the kid]

If a mother is having a hard time or a hard time by someone ,,then the baby or kid feels it too. And the kid gets upset and then usually everybody is stressed and upset. A study carried out in usa proved this. Yeah stress can be a killer in more ways than you think. Even if a baby doesn't hear parents arguing it can feel it and get upset. Also it has been shown that if parents have been invited somewhere that they really don't want to go ,,, then somehow the baby makes a problem and that makes it impossible for the parents to go out. Strange indeed but true. Don't ask me where i read about this as it was a long long time ago.