Child Abuse and the Recession  by Fred Lee on 23 April 2009 7
comments Photo: Deniz Ongar  Sleepless nights. Anxiety.
Depression. Stress. Poor diet. It seems as if everyone is being
affected by the current state of the economy in some shape or
form, but if you’re a parent, there is another more unthinkable
manifestation of the souring economy: child abuse.  Recent
evidence seems to indicate that child abuse is on the rise, even
though the national trend showed a decline from 2007 to 2008.
Regional hospitals across the country, from Boston to Seattle,
are reporting a disturbing rise in the number of children being
admitted who display injuries consistent with abuse.  These
include physically induced trauma to the head and limbs, to
shaken baby syndrome. Though the abuse involves mostly physical
injuries, doctors are also seeing a rise in non-physical cases
of neglect whereby the parent either failed to attend to their 
kids needs because they couldn’t afford it or because they had
to work.  What’s troubling ab