Posted on 04/03/2008 4:27:31 PM PDT by ShadowDancer
CDC: About 1 in 50 U.S. Infants Is a Victim of Nonfatal Child Abuse, Neglect
Thursday, April 03, 2008
About 1 in 50 U.S. infants are victims of nonfatal child abuse or neglect in a year, according to the first national study of the problem in that age group.
The study focused on children younger than 1 year, and found nearly a third were one week old or younger when the abuse or neglect occurred.
"It is a particularly vulnerable group," said study co-author Rebecca Leeb, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"We were struck by the fact there was a clustering of maltreatment with the very, very early age group."
The researchers counted more than 91,000 infant victims of abuse and neglect in the period Oct. 1, 2005 to Sept. 30, 2006.
The information came from a national data base of cases verified by protective services agencies in 45 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
Other studies have looked at national child abuse and neglect cases, but this is believed to be the first to focus on infants, said Leeb, a CDC epidemiologist.
The 91,000 infants were age 1 year or younger. About 30,000 of those cases were infants aged one week or younger. About 68 percent of those cases were attributed to neglect.
Federal officials define neglect as a failure to meet a child's basic needs including housing, clothing, feeding and access to medical care. But the counted cases did not include new parents stumbling their way through breast-feeding or making other rookie mistakes.
"Things like abandonment and newborn drug addiction would qualify as neglect, not things like parents learning how to be parents," Leeb said.
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I’m a victim of big government.
Somehow I smell a drive to get more vigilant with vaccinations with this study. Before you ask, yes I had my children vaccinated.
Unless this had a strict definition of abuse and neglect, it is useless.
A good definition of abuse would be intentional infliction of fracture, scarification, electrical shock, burning or freezing, extensive bruising, contusion or abrasion, poisoning or administering illegal drugs or harmful substances, internal trauma resulting in neurological damage or internal bleeding, sexual abuse, or intentionally placing the child in harm’s way resulting in injury.
Neglect would include malnutrition, exposing the child to hyper- or hypothermia, untreated injuries and illness, abandonment, leaving the child in unsanitary conditions or with no supervision or under the supervision of an incapable or abusive person, or in the presence of dangerous animals.
While I might have missed a few, I think this is a pretty inclusive list.
This is a tactic that has going on since the early ‘90’s.
Let millions of random third-worlders into the country, destroy native urban families with welfare, encourage children to have children, and then gleefully publish statistics describing the result. “Infant Mortality Up By Record Amounts in the United States.” “Child Abuse At All Time Highs in United States.” “America No Longer Leads World In Literacy.”
It’s getting old.
How would you classify a mother who shouts “I hate you” and “You’re ugly” to a child from birth, handles him roughly, but not enough to show damage?
It’s getting old.
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Of course the solution put forth by the Liberal/Marxists is further government growth and interference in our lives.
It’s all part of the plan to destroy freedom.
The liberal would say therapy. I would say knock the shit out of her and get the child out.
If she does it in private, she will get away with it for a while. In public, and there will be individuals to assert that she behaves in an abusive manner. However, in either case, it would not lend itself to statistics.
Thanks! I agree.
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