Friday, February 12, 2010
Child Abuse Preventable
WEST VIRGINIA...
A large federal study of child abuse and neglect has shown a significant decline in child maltreatment for the first time since studies like it began in the '70s. According to the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, incidents of child abuse fell by slightly more than a quarter between 1993 and 2005. Prevention programs are helping. Such programs involve home visits to vulnerable families that bring information to the parents of very young children. Programs like this are on the chopping block as states face a terrible budget year. But, they are cheap compared to the estimated hundred billion dollars abuse and neglect cost the U. S. each year. According to experts on the subject, child abuse can be prevented, although doing so requires wrestling with bigger social problems, such as poverty.
A large federal study of child abuse and neglect has shown a significant decline in child maltreatment for the first time since studies like it began in the '70s. According to the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, incidents of child abuse fell by slightly more than a quarter between 1993 and 2005. Prevention programs are helping. Such programs involve home visits to vulnerable families that bring information to the parents of very young children. Programs like this are on the chopping block as states face a terrible budget year. But, they are cheap compared to the estimated hundred billion dollars abuse and neglect cost the U. S. each year. According to experts on the subject, child abuse can be prevented, although doing so requires wrestling with bigger social problems, such as poverty.
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