The name of the article that I read was
called, “Abuse
rate 10 times higher in welfare families: study.” This article did
a study in New Zealand and found that more children of families on
welfare are neglected and abused. This study was done by the
University of Auckland. The study was conducted for the white papers
on vulnerable children. One thing that they found was that, children
that are abused or neglected in the first five years of life were
that of families on welfare. The cause of the abuse and neglect came
to be the cumulative stress of being chronically short of money. The
way that they said they could measure to see if a child is at risk of
maltreatment was by something called “Risk Assessment Tool.” This
tool would look at things like children past maltreatment, their
parents maltreatment in their childhood, single verses two parent
home, birth intervals between the children, parents ages, and parents
education. This studies purpose was to be able to intervene before
any harm was done to the child. The controversy that is going on
right now is that politics are against using this tool, because they
say that it would only benefit children that are on welfare. The
people that did the study say that this is not true and will be used
eventually for all children.
This
article was very interesting to me. This study was amazing and has
the potential to stop violence toward children that are living in
stressful family situations. I think that the tool called Risk
Assessment Tool should be used for all children and not just children
on welfare. Millions of children go through abuse and neglect, and
this tool could save them from these types of issues. I just wonder
if they used these tools for all children around the world, how would
they get these people to get involved.
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