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Separation From Mom, Dad Linked With Learning Trouble In Kids



 
 
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Separation From Mom, Dad Linked With Learning Trouble In Kids

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0516094416.htm

ScienceDaily (May 16, 2008) — In the wake of divorce, illness, violence
and other problems that can unsettle homes, countless young children are
liable to experience temporary separations from one or both parents
before packing their knapsack for kindergarten. Published in the
May/June issue of Ambulatory Pediatrics, a new, community-wide study
from Rochester, New York, warns that such kids are at increased risk for
learning difficulties and that these separations are good predictors of
which children may require special educational interventions to succeed.


Previous research on parent-child separation has concentrated on
children in foster or kinship care, who are known to often experience
considerable emotional, behavioral and developmental problems. Yet
little is known about the impact of separation more generally,
especially in less formalized situations in which one or more parents
temporarily leaves.

"In most cases, separation is a marker of instability. We suspect that
homes in which children are separated from their parents may be less
nurturing environments.

Parents are less apt to be reading to their kids or taking time to teach
them new skills, such as tying shoes, practicing their letters or
penning their names," said Sandy Jee, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor
of Pediatrics at the University of Rochester Medical Center's Golisano
Children's Hospital, who led the study. "Kindergarten can be a
wet-cement year for many kids, so it's important that we start their
educational trajectories on the best paths possible."

The study enrolled 1,619 children between ages 4 and 6 who were entering
Rochester City School District kindergarten classrooms in the fall of
2003. Parents or caregivers were asked if their child had ever been away
from a parent for more than a month, and if so, if the separation
occurred once, twice, or more than three times.


These adults also completed the Parent's Appraisal of Children's
Experiences (PACE) survey to measure their children's developmental
skills by various observable behaviors (e.g., if the child can cut with
scissors; if he or she can tie their shoes") The results were then
analyzed to produce four 4-point scales, each measuring different
dimensions of healthy development, including: how well a child learns
new tasks; how well he or she uses language to express ideas; how
literate he or she is (e.g., can he or she read his own written name");
and the quality of his or her speech (e.g., do other people often have
difficulty understanding the child")

"We found that 18 percent of these urban children had been separated
from their parents at any point in their childhood," Jee said. "This was
surprising, but not unimaginable, since poverty is often linked with
volatility in homes. In fact, 7 percent of these kids had been separated
two or more times."

Children who have been separated at any point scored significantly worse
both on the 4-point scales measuring their ability to learn new tasks
and their pre-literacy skills. Of note, their expressive language and
speech scores fared better-- they were comparable to those of their
non-separated peers.

"This makes intuitive sense," Jee said. "In families disrupted by
separation, adults are less likely to make consistent efforts to expose
kids to new ideas, or to encourage reading. Without this first
educational coaching from mom or dad, kids' early learning and
preliteracy skills are less likely to really blossom.

"Thankfully, most school districts require a physical before a child
enters kindergarten," she added. "Pediatricians have a unique
opportunity to anticipate which children might be starting their
educational careers at a disadvantage, to recommend more screening for
such children, and to help see that they get the interventions they need."

Jee and her colleagues do not know yet which types of separations might
have the most deleterious effects on kids' early learning, since the
survey did not ask specific reasons for the separation. It is possible
that in some of instances, separations might not be caused by upsets
within the home, but perhaps the pull of forces outside it: army duty,
or perhaps a parent leaving to tend to a sick relative.

"This study reminds us to treat any sort of separation as a marker for
possible psychosocial stress in a family," Jee said. "And intervening
early is the best way to minimize long-term educational -- and
vocational -- deficits for these children."

This research was supported in part by a grant from the Robert Wood
Johnson Physician Faculty Scholars Program.









An Inconvenient Truth about Child Protective Services, Foster care, and
the Child Protection "INDUSTRY"

Child Protective Services Does not protect children...
It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even
killed at the hands of CPS.

every parent should read the free handbook from
connecticut dcf watch...

http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com

Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US
These numbers come from The National Center on
Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington. (NCCAN)
Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS

Perpetrators of Maltreatment

Physical Abuse CPS/Foster care 160, biological Parents 59
Sexual Abuse CPS/Foster care 112, biological Parents 13
Neglect CPS/Foster care 410, biological Parents 241
Medical Neglect CPS/Foster care 14 biological Parents 12
Fatalities CPS/Foster care 6.4, biological Parents 1.5

Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that
are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per
100,000 children. CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse
and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the
citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold
parents too. No judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY
government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty of more harm and
death than any human being combined. CPS nationwide is guilty of more
human rights violations and deaths of children then the homes from which
they were removed. When are the judges going to wake up and see that
they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when
children are removed from safe homes based on the mere opinion of a
bunch of social workers.

THIS IS AMERICA'S HIDDEN HOLOCAUST

Currently Child Protective Services violates more constitutionally
guaranteed liberties & civil rights on a daily basis then all other
agencies combined, Including the National Security agency/Central
intelligence agency wiretaping programs…

THE CORRUPT BUSINESS OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES
BY: Nancy Schaefer Senator, 50th District of Georgia

http://www.senatornancyschaefer.com/...s.php?filter=6

This is Child Protection?
By Gregory A. Hession, J.D.

http://www.jbs.org/node/4632

Mercenary Motherhood: "Memoirs of a Babystealer."

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...nion-rightrail

FOSTER CARE IS A 80 PERCENT FAILU. A Brief Analysis of the Casey
Family Programs. Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study. By Richard Wexler

http://www.nccpr.org/reports/cfpanalysis.doc

HOW THE WAR AGAINST CHILD ABUSE BECAME A WAR AGAINST CHILDREN

http://www.nccpr.org/issues/1.html

Adoption Bonuses: The Money Behind the Madness
DSS and affiliates rewarded for breaking up families
By Nev Moore Massachusetts News

http://www.massnews.com/past_issues/...May/mayds4.htm

A recent study has found that 12-18 months after leaving foster ca

30% of the nation’s homeless are former foster children.
27% of the males and 10% of the females had been incarcerated
33% were receiving public assistance
37% had not finished high school
2% receive a college degree
50% were unemployed

Children in foster care are three to six times more likely than children
not in care to have emotional, behavioral and developmental problems,
including conduct disorders, depression, difficulties in school and
impaired social relationships. Some experts estimate that about 30% of
the children in care have marked or severe emotional problems. Various
studies have indicated that children and young people in foster care
tend to have limited education and job skills, perform poorly in school
compared to children who are not in foster care, lag behind in their
education by at least one year, and have lower educational attainment
than the general population.
*Casey Family Programs National Center for Resource Family Support

80 percent of prison inmates have been through the foster care system.

The highest ranking federal official in charge of foster care, Wade Horn
of the Department of Health and Human Services, is a former child
psychologist who says the foster care system is a giant mess and should
just be blown up.

http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=2017991

Four rigorous studies have found that at least 30 percent of America’s
foster children could be home right now if their parents had decent housing.

This study found thousands of children already in foster care who would
have done better had child protection agencies not taken them away in
the first place.

Front-page story in USA Today.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...m?csp=34#Close

Read the studies online.

Casey "alumni" study: "Improving Family Foster Ca Findings from the
Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study,"

http://www.casey.org/Resources/Publi...lumniStudy.htm

MIT study: "Child Protection and Child Outcomes: Measuring the Effects
of Foster Care,"

http://www.mit.edu/~jjdoyle/doyle_fo...arch07_aer.pdf

Texas comptroller's "Forgotten Children" reports:

www.window.state.tx.us/forgottenchildren

The bottom line? - Child Protective Services and the Foster Care system
for the most part turns out young adults that are nothing more than
walking wreckage...

CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CONSTITUTIONALLY
GUARANTEED LIBERTIES & CIVIL RIGHTS ON A DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER
AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WIRETAPPING PROGRAMS....

CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT
FAMILIES YEARLY NATIONWIDE AND COMING TO YOU'RE HOME SOON...

BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF
REFORMING OR ABOLISHING CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ("MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES
TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.") THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEY
ARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION...
 




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