The N.C. Child Fatality Prevention Team has released new numbers about child homicides. The Prevent Child Abuse organization says the numbers show the need for family support.
The N.C. Child Fatality Prevention Team has released new numbers about child homicides.
Statistics show in 2008, 33 North Carolina children died at the hand of a parent or caregiver.
The Prevent Child Abuse organization says the newly released numbers "illustrate the need for North Carolina communities to continue providing broad-based support for families through increasingly stressful times."
“We know from research that when families in our communities face greater stress – including our increasingly difficult economic times, military deployments, lack of access to mental and physical health services and fewer community supports – children are at a greater risk of being abused,” said Prevent Child Abuse CEO and President Rosemarie “Rosie” Allen. “Add these stressors to the everyday work of parenting, and children are likely to suffer.”
The abuse prevention organization says high levels of stress in the home affect both children and parents, and stress can change the way that parents interact with their children, making them more likely to lash out in frustration.
The organization reports "new scientific research shows that high levels of stress – called toxic stress – cause children to have lifelong physical and mental health problems. While some stress is good and helps a child grow and learn, toxic levels of stress damage the architecture of a child’s developing brain leading to problems like mental illness, obesity, social and behavioral problems. Toxic stress can be caused by abuse and neglect as well as by exposure to conditions like extreme economic hardship."
“Child abuse is absolutely preventable,” says Allen. “By making sure that our communities are equipped to support families – especially in hard times – we can save children from serious injury and from the lifelong scars of abuse.”
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