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"See: Margolin, L. "Child Abuse by Mother's Boyfriends: Why the Overrepresentation?" child abuse & Neglect 16 (1992): 451-551. In The National Family Violence Survey (Straus, Gelles), mothers had a 62 percent greater rate of child abuse than fathers. child abuse rates can also vary by state depending on enforcement and reporting. For example, in Oregon for 1993, the perpetrators of child abuse of all types were: mother (38.3 percent); father (20.7 percent); neighbor/friend (8.2 percent); stepfather (6.4 percent); live-in companion (4.9 percent); brother (3.2 percent); uncle (2." - The Disinformation Company, Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies (Get the book.) "However, there is not a consensus among the research about which gender is more responsible for child abuse. That is, some researchers believe that mother's boyfriends are responsible for the act of child abuse, but the mother is also responsible for allowing the abuse to occur. See: Margolin, L. "Child Abuse by Mother's Boyfriends: Why the Overrepresentation?" child abuse & Neglect 16 (1992): 451-551. In The National Family Violence Survey (Straus, Gelles), mothers had a 62 percent greater rate of child abuse than fathers." - The Disinformation Company, Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies (Get the book.)

"They did return, two weeks later, after the child had suffered a devastating head injury while in the care of the babysitter, who was later charged with child abuse. The Spragues successfully sued their pediatrician, the hospital, and two other doctors for failing to order a CT the first time they brought their son in, claiming that the image would have somehow shown the babysitter was abusing the boy. Whether or not a CT might have uncovered evidence of abuse, cases like the Spragues' send a collective chill down the spines of physicians." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Still other parents—the ones described in this chapter—find themselves being forced into participating in medical child abuse. A VERY GENTLE FATHER FIGHTS BACK ABOUT ONE YEAR AFTER Reggie Thompson's mother divorced her husband, she took her three-and-one-half-year-old son to a pediatrician, explaining that he had been biting and scratching people and saying he hated them. The pediatrician's medical notes indicated no interest in the potential causes of this behavior either in the stresses of divorce or in inadequate parenting practices." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Typically, disclosures to government agencies are required when gunshot wounds, communicable diseases or child abuse are involved. If a physician determines that physical injury to the patient or others is imminent, or there is immediate mental or emotional injury to the patient, records can be released to government or law-enforcement authorities. And be careful about signing anything. Often life and health insurance policy examinations allow a company to circulate the findings to other organizations. As one insurance executive said, "It's tough work to be a careful consumer." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"It is no exaggeration when I call this medical manipulation a form of technological or pharmacological child abuse. The use of the term "zombielike" was striking and occurs elsewhere on occasion in the scientific literature. Few if any have done more to advocate stimulant medication for children than Peter Jensen, formerly at NIMH and now at Columbia University. Nonetheless, in a widely read psychiatric textbook, Jensen and a coauthor describe the "zombie" effect sometimes caused in children by stimulant medication." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Worldwide, many more babies die of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) in one year than who die of cancer, heart disease, pneumonia, child abuse, Cystic Fibrosis and Muscular Dystrophy combined. The Italian research shows that the tested mice suffered drops in heart rate and other symptoms of SIDS, and many of the animals died at an early age. Low levels of serotonin in the animals' brainstems, which control heartbeat and breathing, may have caused sudden death, researchers said in the July 4, 2008 issue of Science." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"I hope that some day our society will realize that drugs are never the answer to a child's emotional problems and that pro-drug physicians and drug companies have been perpetrating massive child abuse. _Chapter 16 This Is Not My Daughter THE "ANTIPSYCHOTIC" MEDICATIONS like Zyprexa, Seroquel, and Abilify have their primary or "therapeutic" effect by causing severe apathy and indifference. The personality and self-determination of the individual are subdued and, in some cases, nearly snuffed out. These drugs may render people unable to care about themselves and about life." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"We need to advocate for the allocation of funding for programs that promote prevention of child abuse, early intervention for abused children, and healthy childhood development, as well as programs that cultivate parental nurturing skills, including home visitation programs that provide services to at-risk families before and after the birth of children. We must also commit resources for community programs and public spaces that offer children, adults, and the elderly an opportunity to read, think, discuss, interact, and learn new things at any stage of their life." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"After allegedly kidnapping his hospitalized son, Fink pled guilty to the charges of attempted aggravated assault and second-degree felony child abuse and admitted that the borderline fruitarian diet was the cause of his son's health problems. Fruitarians seem to prefer the colloquial definition of a fruit rather than the botanical. Some raw foodists I met at a raw food boutique in San Diego (including a young man who was eating only raw cacao nibs and feeling "totally epic") snickered that they had recently busted their fruitarian colleague eating avocados. But isn't an avocado a fruit?" - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"People's minds are so altered by these ads that viewers feel that parents who don't give their children drugs or vaccinations are guilty of child abuse. Yet these drugs are harmful, and many are physically and psychologically addicting. Always remember that it was only half a century ago that medical doctors appeared in cigarette commercials and advertisements, advising which brand of cigarettes was good for digestion and stress and even advising pregnant women to smoke! "One of the major reasons why there is so much sickness and disease is because of the poisons you are putting in your body." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "Gabriel Cousens of the nonprofit Tree of Life Foundation in Patagonia, Arizona, decided that research needed to be published on the effects of live food diets on children since so many raw food parents get harassed by the authorities for "child abuse." Preliminary results as of June 2004 showed that the heights of 74% of the children were above the lowest 25th percentile and the weights of 68% of the children were above the lowest 25th percentile. All children were above the 10th percentile. The heights of 37% of the children were above the 75% percentile." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "Had this law remained in force, would parents who fed their children fries and chips have been charged with child abuse? Unfortunately, this law was superseded by national legislation that prohibits states from enacting food contamination standards and warning labels that are stricter than federal requirements. Lobbyists from food companies succeeded in getting Congress to pass this bill. In addition, cooked carbohydrates contain glycotoxins, one of which is an "advanced glycation end product" (AGE)." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "We live in a society in which miseducated "authorities" tend to interpret this practice as "child abuse." They have a way of believing that veganism is somehow bad, which it can be if kids are not getting sufficient protein, Vitamin Bi2, sunshine (Vitamin D) or other essential nutrients. If your children are old enough, teach them to be discreet. When the "authorities" came knocking on the Boutenkos' door after hearing reports that the family was on a "weird" diet, the kids, who were home alone at the time, answered the caseworker's query with, "We just got back from Burger King!" - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"In fact, giving children refined sugar is, in my opinion, a form of child abuse! That may sound harsh, but if you are consciously giving your children a substance that has a drug-like effect, can cause depression, suicidal feelings, ill health, mood swings, learning and behavioral problems, and can predispose them toward criminal and delinquent behavior, would you not consider that child abuse? Hopefully reading this chapter will make them realize that your children are definitely not deprived. The kids won't even miss the treats." - Mary-Ann Shearer, Perfect Health the Natural Way (Get the book.)

"A diagnosis of PID in children warrants an evaluation for child abuse. PID symptoms more often occur during or within one week of menses because the opening of the cervix is wider due to menstruation. Microorganisms can then more easily ascend into the upper genital region and use the flow of blood as nutrition for their growth. Women with new heterosexual partners within the last 30 to 60 days or multiple sex partners are more likely to develop PID. If a woman's partner is not monogamous, then she is also at increased risk." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"That may sound harsh, but if you are consciously giving your children a substance that has a drug-like effect, can cause depression, suicidal feelings, ill health, mood swings, learning and behavioral problems, and can predispose them toward criminal and delinquent behavior, would you not consider that child abuse? Hopefully reading this chapter will make them realize that your children are definitely not deprived. The kids won't even miss the treats. Just give them sweet alternatives—dried fruits, especially dates and raisins, are ideal. (See recipe section and www.mary-anns." - Mary-Ann Shearer, Perfect Health the Natural Way (Get the book.)

"In short, I witnessed the growth of a new class of health care professionals who advocated child abuse under the guise of "treatment." The Barkleys of the world encouraged teachers, psychologists, physicians, and parents to see the problem as only residing within the malfunctioning brain of the child, without giving nearly enough attention to their family situations, lack of fit with schools, and any number of other factors, like human nature itself, that cause children to come into conflict with adults." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.) "None of the above parties intentionally harm children, though they consistently deny or ignore the harm their actions cause, yet the sum of their actions add up to child abuse on a massive scale. And what of the parents who go along? For the most part, they are trying to be as responsible as possible. Rarely do they realize how colossally misinformed they have been because they trust that these experts know what they are doing and are acting in the best interest of their children." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"Peter Breggin who is one of the real heroes in the fight to end the biological model of depression and mental disorders uses the strongest language in discussing Rosenthal and his work: The book presents one of the most tragic chronicles of child abuse recorded anywhere. Yet, at no time is the abuse discussed as such. In no place in the book is it summarized. The data is strewn throughout the six hundred pages in reports of the various professionals. Much of it is contained in footnotes ...." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, United States; Recruiting In my view, this action amounts to nothing less than chemical child abuse. What possible medical justification could these doctors, hospital staff, and drug pushers have for prescribing mind-altering drugs to four-year-olds? Even the "disease" being treated here is entirely fictional. So-called "bi-polar disorder" was wholly invented by psychiatrists with strong financial ties to drug companies. The purpose of this disease is not to help children, but to sell drugs." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Leaflet printed by the Victorian Women's Suffrage Society Another example is incest and other forms of child abuse. For most of recorded history, children were entirely under the power of adults, even if they were being dreadfully abused. For centuries, children were routinely employed in mines in Britain, under the most appalling conditions, such as sixteen-hour shifts carrying coal on their backs. Incest was such a taboo that it was not even discussed, and was often presumed not to exist. Suddenly, in the last two centuries, we have witnessed rapid, discontinuous social change." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"In The National Family Violence Survey (Straus, Gelles), mothers had a 62 percent greater rate of child abuse than fathers. child abuse rates can also vary by state depending on enforcement and reporting. For example, in Oregon for 1993, the perpetrators of child abuse of all types were: mother (38.3 percent); father (20.7 percent); neighbor/friend (8.2 percent); stepfather (6.4 percent); live-in companion (4.9 percent); brother (3.2 percent); uncle (2.4 percent); other relative (2.1 percent); grandfather (1.7 percent); stepsibling (1 percent); grandmother (0.8 percent); stepmother (0." - The Disinformation Company, Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies (Get the book.)

"A small, preliminary study found that four children with shingles outbreaks, but who were otherwise healthy, all reported experiencing severe, chronic child abuse when the shingles first appeared.6 Among adults, how a stressful event is perceived appears to be more important than the event itself. In one study, people with shingles experienced the same kinds of life events in the year preceding the illness as did people without the condition; however, recent events perceived as stressful were significantly more common among people with shingles. found to be effective against shingles outbreaks." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"Look at the numbers for depression, child abuse, rape or homicide. For every kind of personality or social issue, we saw a dramatic turn for the worse as we entered a period where self and personal rights became a greater focus and unselfishness and service became less important. And yet meaning and purpose in life is a subject that is rarely mentioned in psychology textbooks. I have taught from many psychology texts and have kept them all." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"In The National Family Violence Survey (Straus, Gelles), mothers had a 62 percent greater rate of child abuse than fathers. child abuse rates can also vary by state depending on enforcement and reporting. For example, in Oregon for 1993, the perpetrators of child abuse of all types were: mother (38.3 percent); father (20.7 percent); neighbor/friend (8.2 percent); stepfather (6.4 percent); live-in companion (4.9 percent); brother (3.2 percent); uncle (2.4 percent); other relative (2.1 percent); grandfather (1.7 percent); stepsibling (1 percent); grandmother (0.8 percent); stepmother (0." - The Disinformation Company, Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies (Get the book.)

"As seen in this report published in the USA Today, August 8, 2000, this obviously has been going on for many years: Some public schools are accusing parents of child abuse when they balk at giving their kids drugs such as Ritalin, and as judges begin to agree, some parents are medicating their children for fear of having them hauled away." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"Irvine, 1999). child abuse, which was originally limited to battering, has expanded to include sexual abuse and neglect and, to a lesser extent, child pornography and exploitation (cf. Best, 1990, 1999). To a degree, it also has spawned the larger domain of domestic violence (including woman battering and elder abuse). In 1972, multiple personality disorder was a rare diagnosis (estimated at less than a dozen cases in fifty years); by 1992, thousands of "multiples" had been diagnosed." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.)

"They did return, two weeks later, after the child had suffered a devastating head injury while in the care of the babysitter, who was later charged with child abuse. The Spragues successfully sued their pediatrician, the hospital, and two other doctors for failing to order a CT the first time they brought their son in, claiming that the image would have somehow shown the babysitter was abusing the boy. Whether or not a CT might have uncovered evidence of abuse, cases like the Spragues' send a collective chill down the spines of physicians." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"This "epidemic" resulted from the diagnostic reconceptualization of multiple personality disorder to "dissociative identity disorder" in DSM-III-R, with less restrictive criteria and an association with child abuse (Hacking, 1995).n Definitional categories are potentially elastic and can be stretched to include more phenomena. This may be particularly true with medicalized categories because of the social advantages of medical definitions (e.g." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.)

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