Grits strongly suspects there are larger, unseen trends at play here in addition to the management decisions described above. One of these, the Report of the National Committee on Violence, encouraged that the prevention of child abuse and neglect be the responsibility of a national body (Recommendations 21 and 22). A group of people who had suffered childhood abuse and neglect have been compared with a matched group not officially recorded as maltreated. Surviving victims of neglect also experience several psychological issues over time, from consideration and language deficits to decreased mental function to lower academic achievement. Healthcare neglect is when the caregiver fails to present required medical care, either by delaying or outright denying the youngster the opportunity for therapy.

In truth, parents were accountable for 54 per cent of cases step parents, de facto parents, foster parents and guardians have been cited in 10 per cent of circumstances … Read the rest >>>