Over the next few days, I’ll post a few things that, as a politically active researcher, I’m thankful for this year.
Blessing 1 – A Decline in Child Abuse
In theory, economic hardship is bad for families and bad for crime. As money and jobs run short, tempers rise, and the added head results in more robberies, more spousal abuse, and more divorces.
It is a blessing, then, that this holiday season, the Department of Health and Human Services can report a continuation in the steady decline of child abuse in the US. Tomorrow, DHHS is set to announce that between 2008 and 2010, abuse and neglect of children fell by more than 14 percent, while child fatalities declined by 8.5 percent. Rates of abuse, including cases where children were abused multiple times in the course of a year, fell from 10.3 incidences per 1,000 children to 10 per 1,000, representing the lowest level on record.
Any child abuse is too much, but thank God for the welcome decline in neglect, assault, and harassment of children.
Interesting parogrm, but I wish projects/maps like this would stop using inappropriate projections. Mercator should be banned, it just looks terrible.
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