Comments on: Child Abuse Spikes During Recession

Hospitals Across Country Seeing A Rise In Incidents, Severity Of Abuse Cases

[tomanyt]

schoolmarm22 ... Its nice to know your so perfect.

[get_down]

As my better-half and I approaching our planned retirement phase, it's the best news that our Number one son and his wife delivered to us last year that we are going to have our First Grand-Child. Sure not fast enough, every time we get the chance to baby-sit little darling - time flies too fast - as we parade her around our house, feed her, change her diapers and comfort her into taking a nap, all of a sudden, daughter-in-law's vehicle pulled into our drive-way - time for little "Querida" to leave with her Mom. How in the world after one has a baby, raise him/her to become productive adult in life would EVER engage in physically or mentally abusing their off-springs is truly beyond me.

[schoolmarm22]

Does the single- parent mother of four receive child support from the father(s) of her children? Did she not pay attention to the news over the last couple of years and make some kind of preparation for this economic down-turn? The only ones I feel sorry for in this story are the children. The parents are supposedly adults and should have made better decisions in regard to their finances. My husband lost his job a year and a half ago, and I'm a teacher, so we're not rolling in dough either. However, we don't beat our kids and blame it on the economy. My husband went to school and got a degree in a field where his job prospects are good and he's actively searching for employment. Since my work is steady and almost recession proof, we have the comfort of a steady paycheck coming in until he finds work. If you have children, your priority should be to protect and nurture them. Thankfully, most parents do take care of their children and make sure that their needs are met.

[tomanyt]

Child Abuse Spikes During Recession ... Since there is no "real" definition of child abuse, this title is meaningless.

[Dgunner]

Thier neighbors need to catch the parents out away from thier children and beat the h-ll out them. everytime the kid gets hurt so do they . after a whie the dumb pos should recognize a pattern forming. The one thing not tolerated on this indian reservation is the beating of children and woman. If the woman cries wolf and is the isntigator after a while the intervention team will not respond. If a child shows up at school with beat marks ? There is very little said to the child . we go directly to man of the house and have a talk with him in a fahion he will understand. There are no communication problems and the tribal p[olice usually have some thing to check on on theother side og the reservation. primitive as it sounds it works.

[omega39-2009]

Child Abuse Spikes During Recession

Ain't nothing worse than sitting home unemployed in the double wide as you finish off that last can of Pabst Blue Ribbon and cabin fever begins to sets in.

[mrs_trepidatious]

People need to understand that if it wasn't for children we adults wouldn't have to work as hard to make ends meet.
Children, as young as 3 years old, should out there looking for a job instead of demanding attention 24/7.
But when was the last time you saw a child looking for a job? Never! It's about time the little rascals do something for their parents instead of just sitting on their butts telling everyone about their new toys or sing Sesame Street songs.
I'm glad that people are finally standing up to children.
Posted by PhilistineTheArtLover
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Its not their fault, years ago liberals enacted laws forbidding their employment! Gone are those happy days spent in factories for Americas non priveledge youth. I know my families company would gladly brings jobs back here from China if they could only employ children here in America.

[mrs_trepidatious]

Those who are abusing the children certainly are not Christians. We Christians value life unlike liberals who enjy aborting babies.

[perm3800a]

tmittelstaed - if your post even partly mirrors your reality, you need effective parent training cuz you just don't have it. You offer a sliding menu of ineffectual disciplinary tools and then blame ADHD and the child rather than lack of consistency, delayed response and nonresponse on the part of the parent. That child has that parent trained. They put the 'd' in dysfunctional.

In the 1950s, corporal punishment was the norm. I had my share of hairbrushes on bare backsides and belts to the leg. We no longer accept this as appropriate. We recognize the complete disparity of power between parent and child.

You raise the child as you want them to go from day one, primarily by example. You ask the child politely to hand you something, you thank the child for offering you something, you refuse to engage an hysterical child and always make time for a mannered child, you treat the child as a person - long before the child can speak his/her first word. You make it clear that timeouts are about THINKING and SEPARATION ('I really don't want to be around you if you are going to behave that way. Sit here and think about it and when you are ready to behave like a person, let me know.) Remember the limitation of the age (a timeout of longer than a minute or two with a toddler is meaningless and cruel.)

Finally, remember always that you are big enough to kill the child - and the child knows it. Do you really want to be the monster of your child's nightmares?

I think ADHD is far and away overdiagnosed. I think much of it is poor or distracted parenting coupled with loneliness and poor diet. Remember: negative attention is preferable to no attention so if the only way you spend time with a child is in correction/ discipline/ anger, then the child will find new and more deviant methods of acquiring that atttention (since, after a bit, each bit of naughtiness gets ignored due to parental ennui.)

As the the parent(s) of the children with broken limbs - eye for an eye time. Tether them in the public square and snap their limbs and leave them untreated.

Bull. This is all a fabrication to suck down money from the federal government (CAPTA) to help balance budgets. It is likely that faith based foster care agencies are paying bribes to doctors to report innocent parents to the child protective apparatus.