Major, MAJOR new
study-
Study:
Why Child Abuse Investigations Don't Help Kids
By Maia Szalavitz Monday, October 4, 2010
Time
...Now a new study published Monday*
suggests that child abuse
investigations do not result in long-term improvement in family
functioning or child behavior, and in
fact are associated with increased depression among mothers.
An
editorial accompanying the new study proclaims: “Child
Protective Services [CPS] Has Outlived Its Usefulness.”
The study and editorial were both published in the most recent edition of
the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. Read
more
THE STUDY-
*Household,
Family, and Child Risk Factors After an Investigation for Suspected Child
Maltreatment
A Missed Opportunity for Prevention
Kristine A. Campbell, MD, MSc; Lawrence
J. Cook, PhD; Bonnie J. LaFleur, PhD; Heather T. Keenan, MDCM, PhD
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med.
2010;164(10):943-949. doi:10.1001/archpediatrics.2010.166
http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/164/10/943
Public release date: 4-Oct-2010
Contact: Phil Sahm
phil.sahm@hsc.utah.edu
801-581-2517
JAMA and Archives
Journals
Child
maltreatment investigations not associated with improvements in household
risk factors
Has
Child Protective Services outlived its usefulness?
By brooke adams
The Salt Lake Tribune Published Oct 4, 2010 06:39PM
Updated 26 minutes ago
Families investigated for child maltreatment by Child Protective Services
are no better off years later in seven key areas than other at-risk
families, which a new national study co-authored by a Utah pediatrician
says underscores a “missed opportunity” in responding to households at
high risk for violence, dysfunction and abuse. FULL
STORY
So, for the
foreseeable future the "services" will continue to be- Kidnapping
the kids, Legally
Abuse the parents for Imaginary
Crimes, dope
the kids out of their heads in state custody, fraudulently
collect their Medicare, and put them up for sale in the Kiddie
Pound?
Study shows limits of Child Protective Services
By Anne Harding – Tue Oct 5, 5:16 pm ET
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The Child Protective Services system in the United States "has outlived its usefulness," and should be scrapped in favor of other approaches to protecting at-risk kids, according to a leading expert on injury prevention.
Law enforcement personnel should investigate abuse allegations, public health nurses should help at-risk families before abuse or neglect occurs, and social workers should be involved in counseling and helping families,
but not investigating crime, Dr. Abraham B. Bergman of Harborview Medical Center in Seattle writes in an editorial in this months' issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
Bergman's editorial is a commentary on a study published in the same issue of the journal that found investigations of suspected child maltreatment didn't improve risk factors known to increase the likelihood of child abuse, including lack of social support and poor family functioning.
FULL
STORY
Child protective services has 'outlived its usefulness,' pediatrician says
October 5, 2010|8:41 a.m.
Much attention has been focused on the inadequacy of child protective services agencies in the United States. That attention includes a Los Angeles Times' 2009 series on flaws in local CPS operations titled
"Innocents
Betrayed." A new study confirms the difficulty of child protective services agencies nationwide in altering the fate of abused or neglected children.
FULL
STORY
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