By nearly every standard, the situation for many Rochester-area children is depressing. Rochester has the highest rates of obesity, low birth weights, and infant mortality of any major metro in the state, including New York City.

Federal Families Minister Jenny Macklin says she is horrified by new figures that show a large increase in the number of children having to be removed from their families because of abuse and neglect.

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The horrors of child abuse can be difficult to listen to when you hear news reports. But when it’s your job to get the facts and basically save a child, it can take a toll.

She also committed unspeakable acts to his little body, turning him into a human sex toy in her pornographic broadcasts.

The scars of emotional abuse and neglect, particularly at the handsof a parent, are often ignored and pretty much invisible to all but those closest to the child.

Rape is experienced by the victims as an act of violence. It is a life-threatening experience.

Its figures showed that children under the age of two were at least one hundred times more likely to be killed by stepparents — particularly stepfathers — than by biological parents.

If you were a victim of sexual abuse as a child, did you ever tell anyone? If you did, how long did you wait until you reported the abuse?

Psychologist and associate at Harvard University, Susan A. Clancy, proposes in her new book that it is not the sexual abuse itself that causes trauma, but “the narrative that is later imposed on the abuse experience.”

A directory of resources for ALL child abuse categories

High poverty rate is the single best predictor of child abuse and neglect – children who live in families with an annual income less than $15,000 are 22 times more likely to be abused or neglected.

Information supplied by “mandated reporters” trained to recognize the signs of child abuse and neglect give child protection agencies a better shot at helping endangered or abused children.

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), once called shell shock or battle fatigue syndrome, is a serious condition that can develop after a person has experienced or witnessed a traumatic or terrifying event in which serious physical harm occurred or was threatened.