Child abuse rises when dad is away at war »
Posted By queenb727 1 year, 5 months ago in FamilyChildren in some Army families are vulnerable to abuse and neglect by their mothers when their fathers are away at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, a large Pentagon-funded study finds.
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queenb7271 year, 5 months ago
FTA:
"Mothers were three times more likely to have a substantiated report of child mistreatment when their soldier husbands were deployed than when the fathers were home, according to the research. Mothers at home were nearly four times as likely to neglect their children and nearly twice as likely to physically abuse them during deployment periods."
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Ciera-Marie1 year, 5 months ago
The study said it was mainly neglect, or mistreatment. Meaning not providing supervision and in some cases abandonment.
The decreases were in physical abuse and emotional abuse because the dad is deployed. That is from the same study. You can not ignore that fact either.
What is awesome is the army is trying to do something to prevent it.
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queenb7271 year, 5 months ago
Yes. I was happy to see that it was their study. They were proactive and they're planning to do their best to fix it.
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