This whiplash type of motion can cause severe brain damage to include death. In September of this year a father was arrested for child abuse and second degree homicide. Each year there are about 1,200 to 1,400 cases of SBS, 1 out of 4 babies actually die according to statistics. In many of these cases the parents are children themselves and have not been adequately trained on how to care for a baby. Sadly most men are the abusers in this form of child abuse; however, women have also been found guilty of such a violent act.
The purpose of this post is bring about awareness to Shaken Baby Syndrome. There are some who will disagree with SBS, but you can't deny taking the life of a child is not a homicide. Therefore violently shaken a baby to the point their brain swells has to be child abuse.
3 comments:
When my daughter was a baby she use to cry all the time. Sometimes she would even cry for no apparent reason. But as her father I knew it was my responsibility to take care of her. So no matter how much she annoyed me, I could have never imagine doing anything to hurt my child. No matter how it's done, hurting a baby is just downright insane. Anyone found guilty for hurting a child should be lock away forever.
This is a good subtopic for your blog. I think people sometimes don't even realize what they could be doing to their children out of frustration.
I think you could enhance this post even more if you changed "statistics" to "the statistics from the Epilepsy Association of America," the source. That way, your readers know exactly where you're taking them in your hyperlink.
This is a good post, because some parents do not realizes just bouncing their baby up and down in a aggressive way to stop them from crying is still SBS. I do not understand how a parent could hurt their child, children count on us as the parents to protect them. In some cases it is the parents that are abusing them.
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