Matt Blunt has rightly said, "Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home."
Incidences of child abuse have been increasing in the last decades.
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Dr. Lynn has noted a strange thing that kids who comes up to him for treatment has been exposed to minor bruises in their early childhood.
He clarified the situation by giving the example of a child who came with bruises on his cheeks. The child's parent attributed it as an accident and the same child was brought to Dr. Lynn, again beaten up brutally.
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Every second child in India had been a victim of some form of abuse. Worse still, more than 50% of the children had been subjected to sexual abuse of different kinds.
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The study was published in the journal Pediatrics. Lynn’s study predicted bruises to be transformed into severe abuses and this trend was termed as "sentinel" injuries.
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During the research Dr. Lynn and colleagues analyzed 401 infants under one year of age and categorized them in three categories.
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Child abuse experts have warned that verbal abuse of kids, such as shouting is as detrimental to their development as a physical attack.
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The outcome of the study was that around 27.5 percent of the 200 babies, who were abused, had past history of bruises.
The second group of children had no sentinel injuries and in the third category about 8 percent of kids had past history of minor injuries.
The scientists found it difficult to assess the exact cause of occurrence of such incidences. A very important thing that was highlighted by the study was the importance of differentiating when bruises were converted to abuses.
Dr. Sheets said, "If we can call them what they are — 'sentinel' injuries, or warning injuries — it helps people think differently about them."
A handsome amount of money can be saved by preventing child abuses as a single case of abuse costs a lifetime price tag $210,000. This exorbitant money can be saved if the cases of child abuses are identified at an early stage.
Crying of a child can be an important reason for abuse as many people are irritated by the crying of a child.
The government and NGO’s have been promoting various online campaigns to create awareness among parents and people in general, that crying is a part of child’s normal developmental process.
The experts were of the opinion that identifying abuse at an initial stage can help families deal with it in a more proactive way.
Dr. Sheets stressed this point by saying "If we can identify abuse early, that in and of itself may help families get additional resources to deal with the stress of a new baby."
Source-Medindia
