Fatal child abuse is linked to family income, stress, mental and behavioral health, substance abuse and child - care availability.
Many states with consistently low rates of
fatal child abuse and neglect and positive rankings in child well - being offer at least some child - care assistance to families earning double the poverty level.
Better educating parents can save children's lives Effective home visiting programs Better child - care options can help combat
fatal child abuse
«There's no silver bullet for this, but there are longer - term type of investments that we want to make sure are in place,» said Gov. Martinez, who prosecuted several
fatal child abuse and neglect deaths while Doña Ana County district attorney.
Experts agree home visiting programs are crucial to educate parents and reduce
fatal child abuse and neglect.
New Mexico has consistently had one of the highest rates of
fatal child abuse and neglect in the country in recent years.
Reviews the current literature on the epidemiology of
fatal child abuse, the role of child death investigations in ascertaining the causes of death, the causes of child abuse fatalities, and current prevention efforts.
The chapter provides recommendations for reducing the rates of
fatal child abuse, including parent education in the newborn period, new parent support via home visitation, and community involvement in promoting healthy families.
Not exact matches
The researchers examined data from 20 new cases of
fatal child sexual
abuse and 40,387 new cases of nonfatal
child sexual
abuse that occurred in 2015.
The incidence of
child abuse, eating disorders, drug addiction, teen - age pregnancy, and sexual exploitation, as well as of infant mortality, suicide, and
fatal accidents is increasing throughout the nation, the physicians said.
Brownstein pointed out that in 1960, intoxication was accepted as a «reason» for a
fatal car crash, domestic violence was considered a private matter,
child abuse was still two years away from being described for the first time in a mainstream medical publication, and animal cruelty was considered silliness.
«10 Delise, based upon her study of
fatal attacks over the past five decades, has identified  poor ownership / management practices involved in the overwhelming majority of these incidents: owners obtaining dogs, and maintaining them as resident dogs outside of the household for purposes other than as family pets (i.e. guarding / protection, fighting, intimidation / status); owners failing to humanely contain, control and maintain their dogs (chained dogs, loose roaming dogs, cases of
abuse / neglect); owners failing to knowledgably supervise interaction between
children and dogs; and owners failing to spay or neuter resident dogs not used for competition, show, or in a responsible breeding program.4
Exhaustive peer - reviewed research confirms that the absence of a father is the single most reliable predictor for a whole roster of negative outcomes: low self - esteem, parental alienation, high school dropout (71 % are fatherless), truancy, early sexual activity, promiscuity, teen pregnancy, gang membership, imprisonment (85 % of jailed youth are fatherless), drug
abuse, homelessness (90 % of runaway
children have an absent father), a 40 times higher risk of sexual
abuse and 100 times higher risk of
fatal abuse.