BBC: America’s Child Abuse Rates Worst In Developed World
The United States has the highest child abuse record in the industrialized world. The statistics behind an ''epidemic'' of child deaths state every five hours a child dies from abuse or neglect in the U.S., the BBC investigation reveals.
Note: And British Babystealers are frauds who steal children for frivolous reasons. They have no right to talk.
Michael Petit is a very unreliable source of information of child abuse and protection. Consider this testimony given by Richard Wexler of the NCCPR on July 12 of this year:
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Michael Petit’s own state of Maine is now a national model – something it could not claim while its child welfare system was run by Michael Petit. On the contrary, by 2001, Petit and his successors left Maine with a system that held proportionately more children in foster care than almost any other. Only after a little girl named Logan Marr was taken from her mother because of the mother’s poverty and placed in the foster home a former child welfare caseworker who killed her, did Maine face up to the fact that the heart of the problem was taking away too many children.
A new governor brought in new leadership that cut the rate of removal, significantly increased the use of kinship care, and sharply reduced the use of the worst form of placement, institutionalization. There was no compromise of safety, so it’s no wonder Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government made the transformation of child welfare in Maine a finalist for its innovations in American Government awards.
One final, sad irony: Remember the publication Michael Petit held up at the hearing? The one from ECM featuring pictures of dead children. One of those pictures is of Logan Marr. It profanes the memory of Logan Marr to have her picture used in a publication designed to stampede the American public into supporting the very take-the-child-and-run approach to child welfare that contributed to her death.
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The NCCPR blog contains more information on his misinformation at http://www.nccprblog.org/2011/10/child-welfare-and-race-smoking.html and http://www.nccprblog.org/2009/10/every-fact-matters.html