Thursday, October 20, 2011

BBC News - Michael Petit: Why child abuse is so acute in the US

BBC News - Michael Petit: Why child abuse is so acute in the US: "Over the past 10 years, more than 20,000 American children are believed to have been killed in their own homes by family members. That is nearly four times the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The child maltreatment death rate in the US is triple Canada's and 11 times that of Italy. Millions of children are reported as abused and neglected every year. Why is that?"

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