http://www.tallahassee.com/article/20100103/OPINION01/1030306/Our-Opinion--Child-abuse-deaths
January 3, 2010
Our Opinion: Child-abuse deaths
We merely chip away at the problems
...About 200 children were fatally abused in Florida in 2008,
which is a 20 percent increase over the year 2007.
...The Child Abuse Death Review Committee that reports on and confronts
this societal horror is encouraged by DCF's effort to follow up
screenings with more face-to-face assessments with families, offering
help before a full-scale investigation might be required.
The reports say quite bluntly that unemployed men between 18 and 30
who watch children while the mother is at work are the most common
abusers. Their rage is triggered by crying, toilet training and feeding
and in many of the cases the males aren't the biological fathers, and
that contributes to their inability to cope.
DCF Secretary George Sheldon told the Associated Press last week
that he is increasingly persuaded that substance abuse and mental
health issues are at the root of much domestic abuse and caseworkers
are being educated to better recognize and deal with the symptoms
before they escalate.
Reviews by the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform affirm
the high risk of working mothers leaving children "with unsuitable
young men — in other words, unemployed boyfriends." But it says that
the only "solution" is to educate parents concerning the importance of
making informed choices in their selection of so-called babysitters.
The conundrum only gets worse because many of these moms don't have
much choice; they must go to work or lose their jobs and then be
evicted; they will have their children taken away or endangered if they
are left alone or with that boyfriend who isn't trustworthy....
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