Posted on 01/03/2023 7:10:02 AM PST by karpov
How do we determine which kids are most at risk of severe abuse or neglect, and what can we do to protect them? Answering these questions should be the primary concern of child protective services. In recent years, more advocates have become interested—reasonably enough—in the question of how to stop abuse and neglect before they happen. In academia and government, it’s about getting “upstream” of the problem.
Several years ago, in Texas, researchers started identifying communities by zip code with high rates of child maltreatment. They included in this measure kids exposed to maltreatment—often siblings who had been in families with substantiated reports of abuse or neglect against another child. Then the researchers tried to figure out the common characteristics of the communities.
This strategy differs from simply assessing the risk factors of a particular family. It would be complicated, as well as controversial, for government to single out a particular family (even if it did so only to offer help) just because it has characteristics that correlate with child maltreatment (such as a former felon living in the home). By focusing on whole communities at risk and then offering various services, the researchers hoped to avoid this difficulty.
Some factors correlated with high-risk communities won’t be surprising: a high percentage of residents with less than a high school diploma and high ratios of hospital-based deliveries to teen mothers or infant emergency-room visits. But the factor with the strongest correlation by far is the percentage of adults aged 35 to 64 receiving Social Security benefits for a qualifying disability. Again, this is not to say that adults getting benefits are more likely to harm a child but that their prevalence tells us something important about the likelihood of child maltreatment in an area.
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Wow! That throws a wrench into the narrative peddled by leftists!
Also: If one tries to report a case of possible child abuse, one is referred to the infamous “child protective services.”
In a case I reported, where the parents of the kid were drug addicts and the kid was being used as a token to get more drugs - with the implication that it was being trafficked - it took me months to decide whether to report on it. It was an experience of anguish. I called everybody I could think of to try to get advice. The kid’s own mom said, “I can’t do anything.” I talked to the kid’s grandma, who complained about the people who had the kid (also drug addicts) and said the same thing. So finally I called CPS. It still torments me. I felt like I had to break the cycle and that was the only way I could do it.
I’ll admit I even considered kidnapping the child to get it out of danger.
And just wait: In the future, there will be so many more disabled people on public assistance we’ll think of 2020-21-22 as “the good old days.”
“Drug abuse and mental illness in the household are better predictors of child abuse than poverty.”
DUH!
Yeah this is dumb everybody knew this, we spent a large portion of our history where the majority of Americans were dirt poor and abuse of children was not widespread
Start by asking "is it a two-parent household?"
How Can We Identify Kids At Risk?
Stop by any school and note some of the parents I did maintenance at many schools you would not believe what you will see.
Some of the kids have the lost look in their face it’s not a pretty sight.
Go to a PTA event and take note
The #1 biggest danger is Mommy’s new boyfriend.
In nature, the male kills the defeated/rival male’s kids in order to get the mother to mate with him and spread his genes.
Bears, lions, tigers, wolves...
UNTIL Feds STOP the inflow of drugs into the USA-—NOTHING will improve.
It’s the mental health people who are the cause of all these insane sexual theories. Sending kids to them will only make it worse.
Well, how about diabetes? Type 2 diabetes in particular.
I have been learning about the LIES emanating from Ansel Keys and the sugar industry that were promulgated by Harvard University and the New England Journal of Medicine (just to name a few of the guilty).
Incredibly sad to see how Covid vaccine was not the first time the truth was suppressed.
My goodness. Of course they would be. Many families are poor and raise perfectly well-adjusted children with no abuse in the family. I was raised “dirt-road” poor, but both my parents worked hard and instilled principles of hard work and responsibility (and the love of reading) in all their children. All of us went on to have very good careers. My parents were both children of the depression and didn’t require the latest gadget to be happy or provide for us children. We worked hard in the garden in the spring and summer (not without complaining) and therefore ate well in the winter. We wore hand-me downs and were happy to have them. Snacks were saltine crackers and a glass of water and we thought it was great. You are going to find more cases of abuse in drug-addled and mentally ill parents no matter whether they are rich or poor.
Drug abuse and mental illness create poverty too of course.
So then we notice poor households producing “more” criminals but if so it’s the drugs and crazy not poverty.
Children raised by crazy addicts don’t turn out well.
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