Looking for root causes after a rash of deadly child abuse cases
By HANK TESTER
Updated 9:18 AM EST, Tue, Mar 8, 2011
NBC Miami
....Jennifer O'Flannery Anderson heads the Broward United Way, which funds programs to prevent child abuse blames much of the violence on the break down of the family unit.
"A lot of it comes from their (the victim's) parents, the environment they came up in that is so unhealthy that it becomes natural to them. They saw it done so they think that is how they treat their children," said Anderson. "We are dealing with a break down of multiple generations of the eroding family, young families, parents who were not raised in healthy environments, did not have good modeling."
O'Flannery Anderson was not speaking specifically about the recent cases, but was quick to note that many of the abuse cases can be traced to substance abuse and mental issues.
"Twenty years ago, what happened behind closed doors was a private matter," she said. "Today we know that effect of that was they have created a generation of people who abuse their children or abuse their spouses." FULL STORY
Tie this in with our previous story - Training All Children – All Families
"Destroy the family, you destroy the country." -Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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