Flawed Alaska child abuse study suggests 'solutions' likely to worsen problem

Flawed Alaska child abuse study suggests 'solutions' likely to worsen problem

The problem of child abuse is serious and real -- in Alaska and everywhere else in America. But a recent study by researchers at the University of Alaska Anchorage about the rate at which children known to the Office of Children’s Services are re-abused is built on a foundation of faulty assumptions and questionable data. As a result, it points toward “solutions” likely to make things even worse.