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[Che Gookin]

Long-Term Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect
Child Abuse Basics
By Vincent Iannelli, M.D., About.com
Updated July 15, 2007

About.com Health's Disease and Condition content is reviewed by the Medical Review Board

Filed In:Child Abuse

The impact of child abuse and neglect is far greater than its immediate, visible effects. These experiences can shape child development and have consequences that last years, even lifetimes. Research now shows that the physical, psychological, and behavioral consequences of child abuse and neglect impact not just the child and family, but the community as a whole.
Physical Consequences

The immediate physical effects of abuse can range from relatively minor, such as a bruise or cut, to severe, such as broken bones, internal bleeding, or even death. Longer-term consequences may include:

•Shaken Baby Syndrome (including blindness, learning disabilities, mental retardation, cerebral palsy, or paralysis)
•Impaired brain development
•Lifelong poor physical health

Psychological Consequences

The immediate psychological effects of abuse and neglect—isolation, fear, and a lack of trust—can spiral into long-term mental health consequences including:

•Depression and anxiety
•Low self-esteem
•Difficulty establishing and maintaining relationships
•Eating disorders
•Suicide attempts
Behavioral Consequences
Studies have found abused or neglected children to be at least 25 percent more likely to experience problems in adolescence, including:
•Delinquency
•Teen pregnancy
•Drug use
•Low academic achievement

As adults, children who experienced abuse or neglect have an increased likelihood of criminal behavior, involvement in violent crime, abuse of alcohol and other drugs, and abusive behavior.

For more information, read Long-Term Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect, from the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information, available at http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/factsh ... uences.cfm.

[Che Gookin]

Why Kids Who Get Spanked Have Lower IQs
Time.com


By JOHN CLOUD John Cloud – Sun Sep 27, 10:10 am ET

The debate over spanking goes back many years, but the essential question often evades discussion: does spanking actually work? In the short term, yes. You can correct immediate misbehavior with a slap or two on the rear-end or hand. But what about the long-term impact? Can spanking lead to permanent, hidden scars on children years later?

On Friday, a sociologist from the University of New Hampshire, Murray Straus, presented a paper at the International Conference on Violence, Abuse and Trauma, in San Diego, suggesting that corporal punishment does leave a long-lasting mark - in the form of lower IQ. Straus, who is 83 and has been studying corporal punishment since 1969, found that kids who were physically punished had up to a five-point lower IQ score than kids who weren't - the more children were spanked, the lower their IQ - and that the effect could be seen not only in individual children, but across entire nations. Among 32 countries Straus studied, in those where spanking was accepted, the average IQ of the survey population was lower than in nations where spanking was rare, the researcher says.

In the U.S., Straus and his colleague Mallie Paschall of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, looked at 1,510 children - 806 kids ages 2 to 4, and 704 ages 5 to 9 - and found that roughly three-quarters had endured some kind of corporal punishment in the previous two weeks, according to interviews with the mothers. Researchers measured the children's IQ initially, then again four years later. Those kids who hadn't been spanked in the initial survey period scored significantly better on intelligence and achievement tests than those who had been hit. Among the 2-to-4-year-olds, the difference in IQ was five points; among the older kids, there was a 2.8-point gap. That association held after taking into account parental education, income and other environmental factors, says Straus.

So how might getting spanked on the butt actually affect the workings of the brain? Straus notes that being spanked or hit is associated with fright and stress; kids who experience that kind of trauma have a harder time focusing and learning. In another recent paper that he coauthored with Paschall, Straus writes that previous research has found that even after you control for parental education and occupation, children of parents who use corporal punishment are less likely than other kids to graduate from college.

Still, it's not clear if spanking causes lower cognitive ability or if lower cognitive ability might somehow lead to more spanking. It's quite possible that kids with poor reasoning skills misbehave more often and therefore elicit harsher punishment. "It could be that lower IQ causes parents to get exasperated and hit more," Straus says, although he notes that a recent Duke University study of low-income families found that toddlers' low mental ability did not predict an increase in spanking. (The study did find, however, that kids who were spanked at age 1 displayed more aggressive behavior by age 2, and scored lower on cognitive development tests by age 3.) "I believe the relationship [between corporal punishment and IQ] is probably bidirectional," says Straus. "There has to be something the kid is doing that's wrong that leads to corporal punishment. The problem is, when the parent does that, it seems to have counterproductive results to cognitive ability in the long term."

One problem with Straus' data is that some of the parents who tended to spank may also have been engaging in actual physical abuse of their children. Researchers define corporal punishment as physical force intended to cause pain - but not injury - for the purpose of correcting a child's behavior, not simply hurting him. Studies have shown that very few parents who use corporal punishment also beat their kids, but Straus can't rule out the possibility that his data is confounded by the presence of child abuse, which past research has shown to affect victims' development.

The preponderance of evidence points away from corporal punishment, which the European Union and the United Nations have recommended against, but the data suggest that most parents, especially those in the U.S., still spank their kids. Based on his international data, collected by surveying more than 17,000 college students in various countries, Straus found that countries with higher GDP tended to be those where corporal punishment was used less often. In the U.S., the tendency to hit also varies with income, along with geography and culture; it's most common among African-American families, Southern families, parents who were spanked as children themselves and those who identify themselves as conservative Christians.

But overall the percentage of parents who spank has been steadily declining. Straus says that in 1968, 94% of Americans told surveyors they agreed with spanking. By 2005, the proportion who said it is "sometimes O.K. to spank a child" had fallen to 72%, although most researchers believe the actual incidence of corporal punishment is higher.

The practice has its defenders, and Straus himself admits, with chagrin in his voice, that he spanked his own son. In the 1990s, the American Academy of Pediatrics underwent a bitter fight before finally declaring in 1998 that "corporal punishment is of limited effectiveness and has potentially deleterious side effects."

Sometimes spanking seems like the only way to get through to an unruly toddler. But the price for fixing his poor short-term conduct might be an even more troublesome outcome in the future.

[Anonymous]

Where does this list come from oh unfortunately named one?
Why would one pharmacy CALO or not be issuing three non-generic varieties of one tryciclic?
Endep,Elavil,vanatrip…all?

Regardless of the anawer to that, if amitriptyline is such a major part of their medication regimen, they're putting
the kids their at risk for some adverse reactions. This is widely known. However, there are plenty of apathetic or simply ill-informed
rx providers out there who haven't read anything that didn't come with shiny med. rep. sales schwag since 1994 or so...
 :poison:

[Curious George]

CALO translation,

In english CALO's treatment model means:

1.  We don't actually do anything
2.  We lull parents seeking desperate solutions for overinduldged teens
3.  We take your 10,000.00 a month and only provide 2.5 hours of "therapy" a week.
4.  Therapy consists of some idiot asking your teen "And how does that make YOU feel"?
5.  Warehousing your teen and putting them to work to improve the grounds (custodial, janitorial, washing dishes, landscaping)
6.  Dangling carrots in front of the kids faces by their transferrence therapy and yanking the carrot back further increasing RAD symptoms
7.  Driving a further wedge between families
8.  When actual help is required, they tuck tail and run, then blame the parents when their pathetic unproven model doesn't work

It all amounts to bullshit, bullshit and more bullshit and more mindless packaging for people that are drawn to shiney things.

CG

[psy]

Whooter Jr.  An archive of their website is not needed.  There is archive.org for that.  Save a copy locally, sure, but it's not necessary to post content that is still available publicly.

[Che Gookin]

Multiple choice test:

Who exactly is the whooter?

A) Psycho program shill with too much free time?
B) KKKen Hooey?
C) A program survivor who really ought to get learned when it comes to trolling.
D) A spambot created by Natsap to flood our forums with bullshit postings to run up server costs.

[try another castle]

tl;dr


answer: whooter is a guy who is aching for one of my multiple fat cocks. (family jewel, texan, cybercock, etc.)


seriously.. he is. He PMed me about it.

[Che Gookin]

Nice try Bob, or is that Bub?