'Child abuse, financial crisis linked'

Fri Feb 25, 2011 6:4PM
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The US Department of Health and Human Services' Administration (USDHHS) reports that child abuse has reached epidemic proportions with parents being the primary abusers.

"Many of our directors tell us their child abuse reports have risen," said Crystal Ward Allen, director for Public Children Services Association of Ohio.

Parents comprised the largest group of abusers, at 80 percent, with 9 out of 10 abusers being the children's biological parents.

"We have been pretty busy again this year,” said Dr. Kenneth Feldman, medical director of the Children's Protection Program at Seattle Children's Hospital. "The vast majority are from families who are struggling financially."

The US economy is recovering at a very slow pace, according to US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, with a recent forecast that unemployment rates will not recover for "several years."

"We're finding that [child abuse] is directly attributable to what is happening economically," added Allen.

According to a 2010 study released by the USDHHS, 772,000 children were abused in 2008.

The Bureau reported that 1,740 children were killed by their abusers in 2008.

While physical injuries may or may not be immediately visible, abuse and neglect can have consequences for children, families, and society that last lifetimes, if not generations.  FULL STORY

So geniuses, how is kidnapping the kids because their parents are impoverished and then paying fosters $1500 a kid helping?  And incidentally, why bother with all the Legal Abuse and Character Assassination of parents that makes them unemployable FOREVER?  Oh by the way-

"There are more than half a million children and youth in the U.S. foster care system today. Studies reveal that children are 11 times more likely to be abused in state care than they are in their own homes, and 7 times more likely to die as a result of abuse in the foster care system."-- John Walsh Show April 16, 2003

"As many as 75 percent of all children in foster care, upon leaving the system, will have experienced sexual abuse.  One study by Johns Hopkins University found that the rate of sexual abuse within the foster-care system is more than four times as high as in the general population; in group homes, the rate of sexual abuse is more than 28 times that of the general population." --Sexual Abuse: An Epidemic in Foster Care Settings? By Orlow, Orlow & Orlow July 17, 2009