Child Abuse Increases During Economic Crisis

i always wonder what they are calling child abuse- spanking? yelling? wearing hand -me downs? i mean this is a new world that considers how we raised our kids 30 yrs ago loaded up in the station wagon no seat belts as child neglect today. so i put little credence in the word of 'experts'.

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I appreciate your efforts. I am linking to your site. If you do not want this please let me know. My site focuses on a type of child abuse that has reached epidemic proportions but is rarely discussed or publicized. It is child support and financial abuse. Not the angry narcissistic Father type. There are plenty of sites out there that are predominantly male oriented complaining about child support abuse. The real problem is the lack of child support;. Support that is not being paid, collected, and even ordered properly by the courts. If you look at the "calculators" for child support they allow the courts discretion for financial deviations if the parent can afford it and if it is in the best interest of the child. How many "upward deviations" are documented in child support cases. The courts generally rule in the favor of the party with the best lawyer. That is generally not the parent with primary custody simply due to the fact of the poverty induced on that parent by the miserly amount of support that is awarded by the state. Quite possibly the amounts are set so low because it is hard to collect any amount of support these days and that job has fallen to the state as well. The states are creating a self induced demographic of poverty, primary parents and their children. Is there any one out there studying the correlation between child support and poverty? The most vulnerable members of our society are being enslaved to a childhood of poverty and all of the disadvantages associated with it, one being at higher risk for abuse. The primary parent has to work harder to financially support the children placing them at further risk for neglect. This epidemic is a huge pink elephant in the living room of our society. No one is talking abut "The Emperor's New Clothes". Congratulations and kudos to the states and their increased collections of child support. Now maybe they can actually look at the true cost of raising a child properly. I would like to see the powers that be raise a child for one year on what the USDA and median income levels are for their state. Child support and child abuse. It is a true disadvantage in every sense of the word to be poor in our society and we are creating a generation of people living this nightmare as we speak. When you have a physician, with no other children, living on $10,000.00 after taxes a month and his 4 children living on child support of $1,600.00 a month something is desperately wrong. Throw in his Attorney who is THE District Attorney over the child support enforcement agency and you have a glimpse into my case.



Another concern, as well as personal experience, is domestic violence and divorce and the abusers ability to use the legal system as an extension of their abuse. The American Bar Association is trying to address this problem but it is not getting a lot of media attention.

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