The incidence of infant physical abuse in Alaska

Gessner, Bradford D.; Moore, Martha A.; Hamilton, Bernita; Muth, Pam T.

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2003.03.002

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“…below 1 year, show similar tendencies (Table 9). Such a high incidence of severe trauma in children below 1 year has already been described [7,21] in cases of child abuse. Furthermore, the presence of bruises and fractures in non-mobile infants should be considered suspicious [16].…”

Section: General Overview Of Lesionsmentioning

confidence: 92%

A multicentre and prospective study of suspected cases of child physical abuse

Martrille¹,

Cattaneo²,

Dorandeu³

et al. 2005

Int J Legal Med

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In this multicentre prospective study, the authors aim to describe the social and clinical characteristics of a population of children who arrived with a suspicion of physical abuse at five Emergency Services across France and who underwent clinical and thorough radiological screening according to a common predetermined protocol. A total of 185 cases of children seen at the Emergency units of five French hospitals over a 4-year period was assessed via a specific protocol and included in this study. The results of this study show socio-cultural factors consistent with previous reports on abused populations, and in particular give interesting data concerning the type and severity of lesions present, on the whole, in 80% of the population studied. In particular this study revealed a high prevalence (30%) of bone fractures. Apart from giving a perspective on the French population, this study adds some information to the too few preexisting studies of its kind-and stresses the importance of effective identification of possible cases of child abuse and of a thorough and sensitive screening protocol.

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Section: General Overview Of Lesionsmentioning

confidence: 92%

A multicentre and prospective study of suspected cases of child physical abuse

Martrille¹,

Cattaneo²,

Dorandeu³

et al. 2005

Int J Legal Med

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“…The trend then reversed in the fourth month and continued to drop in small but regular steps until the sixth month. A fairly substantial reduction occurred at 7 months (also see Gessner et al 2004). We will revisit these data below, in relation to crying, which occasionally precipitates infanticide, and other vocal behaviors that may act to discourage it.…”

Section: Infanticidementioning

confidence: 93%

“…In these studies, the perpetrator has usually been a male--either the infant's father or the mother's boyfriend (Lazoritz and Baldwin 1997;Starling et al 1995)-or the mother (Gessner et al 2004;Kunz and Bahr 1996). To some degree, differences in the sex of the perpetrator may be related to the amount of time that men and women spend with children.…”

Section: Infanticidementioning

confidence: 99%

Parental selection of vocal behavior

Locke

2006

Hum Nat

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Although all natural languages are spoken, there is no accepted account of the evolution of a skill prerequisite to language-control of the movements of speech. If selection applied at sexual maturity, individuals achieving some command of articulate vocal behavior in previous stages would have enjoyed unusual advantages in adulthood. I offer a parental selection hypothesis, according to which hominin parents apportioned care, in part, on the basis of their infants' vocal behavior. Specifically, it is suggested that persistent or noxious crying reduced care to individuals who would have had difficulty learning complex behaviors, and that cooing and babbling increased social interaction and care as well as control over complex oralmotor activity of the sort required by spoken language. Several different tests of the hypothesis are suggested.

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“…2 In Alaska, previous studies using more inclusive ascertainment methods discovered some of the highest child maltreatment fatality rates in the nation. 3 The Alaska Surveillance of Child Abuse and Neglect (SCAN) Program will be housed in the Maternal-Child Health Epidemiology Unit, Section of Women's, Children's, and Family Health, Alaska Division of Public Health. Alaska SCAN will serve as the central source for standardized child maltreatment-related morbidity and mortality data.…”

Section: Introducing the Alaska Surveillance Of Child Abuse And Neglementioning

confidence: 99%

State of Alaska Epidemiology Bulletin: Introducing the Alaska Surveillance of Child Abuse and Neglect Program (Alaska SCAN)

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The incidence of infant physical abuse in Alaska

Cited by 37 publications

References 26 publications

A multicentre and prospective study of suspected cases of child physical abuse

A multicentre and prospective study of suspected cases of child physical abuse

Parental selection of vocal behavior

State of Alaska Epidemiology Bulletin: Introducing the Alaska Surveillance of Child Abuse and Neglect Program (Alaska SCAN)

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