Published: March. 9, 2011 at 3:32 PM
ST. LOUIS, March 9 (UPI) -- Much of the overrepresentation of African-American children suffering from maltreatment is due to risk factors such as poverty, U.S. researchers said.
F. Brett Drake, professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, said black children child abuse is approximately twice the rate of white children and this has generally been attributed to racial bias in the child welfare system.
"Racism can exist in any system, but it does not appear to be the driving force behind the racial disproportionality in child abuse and neglect reporting," Drake said in a statement. FULL STORY
And of course, the "help" the parents need is for the kids to be kidnapped and held for ransom while the impoverished parents take absurd classes that have nothing to do with helping their poverty.
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