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economy Canada Goose Outlet began to tank, the number of canada goose coats abused kids landing in canada goose uk black friday the hospital with severe brain injuries spiked, a new study shows.
Anecdotes linking child abuse to the recession have surfaced before, but there had been no hard data to back the connection until now.
Although there is no proof that financial hardship itself is causing the uptick in abuse, earlier research has tied parental stress to child maltreatment.
in poverty for parents can be very stressful, Gershoff, of the University of Texas at Austin, told Canada Goose online Reuters Health. that in turn leads to harsher parenting.
The new findings, released on Monday in the journal Pediatrics, are based on hospital data on kids under five from Kentucky, Canada Goose Coats On Sale Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington.
From 2004 to 2009, there were 422 children diagnosed with what doctors call head canada goose clearance trauma. The majority ended up in the intensive care unit, and 16 percent died of their injuries.
The children average age was nine months.
In the three years leading up to the crash in December 2007, canada goose store the rate of abusive head injuries was 8.9 canada goose black friday sale per year per buy canada goose jacket 100,000 kids. After the crash, the Canada Goose Online number jumped to 14.7 per 100,000.
what we are seeing is even close to generalizable, that is a lot of excess children, said Dr. Rachel P.
She said she noticed canada goose clearance a sharp uptick in the number of children who came to her Canada Goose sale hospital with banged uk canada goose up heads in 2008. From 17 cases per year, it suddenly jumped to 37 in 2008, and 11 of those kids died more than had been killed after accidental head traumas.
any given time there was virtually always a canadagoosejacketsalesca baby in our ICU, Berger told Reuters Health. But that statistic is certain to leave out many cases.
people really think it is a tremendous underestimate, Berger said.
Contrary to the new results, federal data show a decline in child abuse in canada goose factory sale 2008. But Berger said those numbers have many limitations, such as a canadian goose jacket very restrictive definition of abuse.
REASONS UNCLEAR It unclear how to account for the findings. canada goose uk outlet But Berger that fewer resources might have canada goose forced mothers to leave their babies with people who don usually take care of them like fathers or male caretakers.
number one perpetrators are fathers and male caretakers, she said. few perpetrators are mothers. It canada goose uk shop the people canada goose coats on sale that mothers give their kids to that end up being the perpetrator.
Gershoff said the young age of the victims suggests crying might have caused the abuse. If a caretaker shakes a baby violently to make him or her stop crying, that may lead to baby syndrome, Canada Goose Parka in which the brain bumps up against the skull it causes brain damage and bleeding.
She said babies only cry for five reasons: Because they are hungry, tired, bored, in pain or need a fresh canada goose clearance sale diaper. If none of that helps, Gershoff added, it alright to leave the crib as long as the baby is safe.
taking a break from that sound, walk out Canada Goose Jackets and then come back when you have calmed down, she advised.
Meanwhile, Berger said, the government is not doing much to help disadvantaged parents cope with financial hardship.
have actually increased their stress by decreasing programs to cheap Canada Goose help cheap canada goose uk infants and young children, she said, adding that there have been cuts in daycare and child benefits.
people are stressed in this country, for uk canada goose outlet instance during a hurricane, as a society we provide help to those people. Here we have an economic recession and what happens during buy canada goose jacket cheap that time is we actually pull back, she said. need to really think about what the outcome is going to be when we cut programs that help infants and young children.