Child abuse more common than thought

Clearly.

"About 1 in 10 children in the developed world is abused each year but official statistics indicate less than a tenth of those abused are investigated, a series of international studies showed on Wednesday.

Child protection services are failing to recognise abuse in part because doctors, schools and community health workers underreport it, they wrote in the Lancet medical journal."

As readers of Fitness Watch have known for years.

"'Child maltreatment is common, and for many it is a chronic condition, with repeated and ongoing maltreatment merging into adverse outcomes throughout childhood and into adulthood,' Ruth Gilbert of the Institute of Child Health at University College London and Cathy Spatz Widom of City University of New York wrote.

'The burden on the children themselves and on society is substantial.'"

That is a certainty.

"Parents account for most types of maltreatment except for sexual abuse, which is usually committed by other family members or an acquaintance, researchers said."

"Maltreatment" like nutritional child abuse which, incidentally, was completely ignored in this piece.

Add nutritional child abuse to the stats and child abuse becomes much, much more common than originally thought.

But intentionally ignoring the most common form of child abuse makes sense however, since the article originated in a medical journal, Lancet.

Docs are quick to distance themselves from their legally mandated responsibilities especially when doing so makes them money.

Shameful.