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Accused Child Molester Was A Foster Parent Licensed By The Stateof Idaho
On 1 Sep 2003, Cathy Weeks wrote: (Greg Hanson) wrote in message . com... By the way, your hunch is wrong about blood parents being the child abusers statistically. So much so that CPS here tried to make removal automatic if Single mom's had a man move in. Based on the STATS about non-relatives perpetrating. The STATS say the opposite of what your hunch. Yeah? Want to post them? Sources? And an anti-CPS website isn't a reliable source. Cathy Weeks Mommy to Kivi Alexis 12/01 USA Today, 10/20/98 SAN FRANCISCO. A child's chances of dying from abuse or neglect are eight times higher when a biologically unrelated adult, usually a boyfriend, lives in the home, and six times greater with a stepfather present, suggests a study out Monday. The three-year report is among the first to compare the home lives of children killed by maltreatment with those of a control group (youngsters who died of natural causes). The study involved 175 Missouri kids, every state resident under 5 who died of maltreatment over three years, and 296 randomly selected youngsters who died from natural causes. Despite the higher risk for kids living with unrelated adults, baby sitters weren't the problem. "There was only one confirmed case of a baby sitter involved," says St. Paul, Minn., family physician Michael Stiffman, the study director. He reported at the American Academy of Pediatrics meeting here. The national figures on child maltreatment deaths are comparatively small: Of 19.3 million kids under 5 in 1996, an estimated 924 died from abuse or neglect. And in the new study, two-thirds of fatal maltreatment happened in homes with only biological parents. The findings confirm smaller, uncontrolled studies, says David Finkelhor of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at University of New Hampshire in Durham. Live-in male companions could see a woman's kids as rivals, he says. "Why haven't the women married these guys? It could be a sign of an unstable relationship with more stress." Some experts think biologically rooted impulses help account for abuse by unrelated men. In some primate tribes, "one of the first things a newly dominant male does is kill the offspring of the female he's going to mate with," says Richard Gelles, a family violence specialist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Substance abuse, violent men and young mothers are common features of homes with severe child abuse, says Deborah Daro of the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse. "Boyfriends may be a proxy for lots of other factors. There's nothing wrong with a boyfriend or stepfather in the home. It's what kind of person he is that counts." Doan |
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Accused Child Molester Was A Foster Parent Licensed By The State of Idaho
There's nothing wrong with a boyfriend or stepfather in the home. It's what kind of person he is that counts." Doan One has to wonder though, is the choice of boyfriend or stepfather a reflection of the company mom wants to associate with? Certainly there must be indications that the male friend is hostile toward the children and may do them harm. We must also remember that many moms have given up their children in order to be with a new found male friend. bobb |
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Accused Child Molester Was A Foster Parent Licensed By The State of Idaho
In article k.net,
"bobb" wrote: There's nothing wrong with a boyfriend or stepfather in the home. It's what kind of person he is that counts." Doan One has to wonder though, is the choice of boyfriend or stepfather a reflection of the company mom wants to associate with? Certainly there must be indications that the male friend is hostile toward the children and may do them harm. We must also remember that many moms have given up their children in order to be with a new found male friend. bobb My daughter used to hang out with a bunch of kids who lived on the streets. When I heard their stories, it amazed me how many of them were this sort of "throw aways" (as opposed to "run aways"). The most distressing were those girls who had to leave when their mothers' caught them "cheating on them" with the mom's new male friend . . . meh -- Children won't care how much you know until they know how much you care |
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