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Child-Abuse Injuries Up 5%

Data looks very different from child protection services study

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 1, 2012 10:16 AM CDT

(Newser) – Hospitalizations from child-abuse injuries climbed 4.9% between 1997 and 2009, a national study finds, with deaths before discharge also increasing. The data runs "in sharp contrast to data from child protective services," say the study's authors. Those groups found that substantiated child abuse dropped 55% between 1992 and 2009, ABC News reports, while another report, required by Congress, found a 23% decline.

The discrepancy may partially be the result of differences in the specifics of what's being studied: The child protective services study didn't take age or severity of abuse into account. Some 54% of hospitalizations in the new study were of kids less than a year old. "Perhaps all physical abuse is decreasing in the United States, but injuries in very young children have not followed this overall trend," the authors say.

Hospitalizations resulting from child abuse have climbed since 1997.
Hospitalizations resulting from child abuse have climbed since 1997.   (Shutterstock)
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SilenceDogood
Oct 1, 2012 7:11 PM CDT
So child abuse is up since Obama became President......................
fractal
Oct 1, 2012 2:42 PM CDT
One key word here is "substantiated".   A case that is unsubstantiated, doesn't mean it didn't happen---just that there is not enough evidence to go forward in court.  This happens a lot, especially in cases of fondling young children.  And when CPS is overworked (always) their ability to gather evidence is compromised. It is also true that in some states, CPS is full of fundamentalists who make a career out of taking away kids from parents who are trying hard to repair their lives.  I had a friend who was fired from CASA for being too "friendly" with the parent trying to get her kids back after she went thru recovery program, job training etc... Turns out, CPS was lying about the mother and her level of responsibility--phone records proved it.  Moreover, CPS workers had an "incestuous" fundy church relationship with the foster parents, who wanted to adopt young children---though children wanted desperately to return to their real mother.  What would you expect, with judgmental church ladies running the show?  Abuse is happening at all levels.  Until we get a way to prove who is lying, and who is telling the truth, this will keep happening.  The sooner we get "truth" specialists in the field, the better.
milosleubner
Oct 1, 2012 1:34 PM CDT
  Child Protective  Services as whole  are  the  biggest  danger  American  families  and  children   are  faced  with  today.  Their  unchecked  powers  allow   them  to  destroy  our  families  wholesale since  the  individual  branches  of  this  sorry  organization  should  be  theoretically  under  the  oversite  of county  boards -  doesn't  work.  They  are  simply  only as  good  as  the  people  working  for them but  as it  turns  out  the  decent  ,humanly  alive individuals  are  either  let  go or  leave  on  their  own because  they  can't  agree  and  conform  to  the  practises  they  see in  their  daily  life. There  are  some exception to  this  rule. Typically the  "social  workers"  are  the  proud  members  of   "32.7 %"   club  -  which  is  the  % tage   of  American  population as  whole ,today,  suffering  from  one  or  another  form  of  mental  and/or   emotional  disorders.  Examples  are to  numerous,there   nefarious  acts hurting  families and  children , are  covered  up  under  the  WIC 837 statue  which  calls  for  "confidentiality"  for   anything  a  minor  person  is  involved  with. Even  though  the  statue is  mainly  design  to  give  some  chance  to  a  young  criminal  to  reestablish  himself  in  the  society after the  case  is  done  in  the  courts  and  jails ,  the   Child PS  (read  BS)   piggyback  on  this  statue  and  thus  cover  up  their  bloody  tracs and  keep  on  ruining  peoples  lives    with  a  nod  from  juvenile  courts where  judges to  often  don't  want  to  get  involved  and  rubber  stamp  everything  in   a hurry. Most  of  what  these  internet  social  workers   do  to  us  is  completely  unconstitutional  but  unless  you  reach  the  levels  of  appelatte  courts  you  better  be  ready  to  learn  all about  your  rights  and  the  workings  of  the  courts  if  you  want  to  get  your  stolen  children  back. By  the  way  these  creaturs  freely  perjure  themselves  on  stand,lie  like  dogs ,  force  the  children  to  make  false  statements  under  duress   and  they  have  dozens  of  greedy  satellite  low  lifes  who  will support  them  in  their  lies  - for 1/  money 2/ they  all feel  that  their"s  is  a  "higher  calling"  simply  because  they  are  soulless , childless  sickos. You  can  check www.fightcps.com  or many  other sites ,  read books often written  by  former  CPS  workers sick of  this  situation  as  I am  -  How  to  protect  your  children  from Child Protective Services  ,Whores  of  Court  and  many  others  also " Duplessies orphans "  will allow  you  to consider  that  such a horror  is  even  possible  in  America  today.(and  since 1974)  If  anyone  needs  to  talk  to  me  I am  at  www.vonleubner@netzero.com   Milos  Leubner ,  check  also  the   story  of  removal of 423  children  from  the  church  in  Texas    based  on  false anonymus   phone  call and  subsequent  results.  so -  just  that  you know  and  take  it  from  here.
 

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