Report: About 900,000 U.S. children abused [View All]

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WASHINGTON - Although there has been an improvement in the situation over the previous decade, HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson said in a statement, “The abuse of children remains a national tragedy that demands our commitment and action.”


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Surgeon General Dr. Richard Carmona announced he would create a working group to focus attention on the problem and find ways to tackle it.

Statistics gathered by the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System showed child protective service agencies received 2.6 million reports of possible maltreatment in 2002. Of these, 896,000 were substantiated and most involved neglect.

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I listened to Jay Inslee, from Washington, go through the list of Millions and Billions of dollars Bush has sent to Iraq to fix roads, builds shelters, put food in shelters, health care, schools... What about our tax dollars staying in our own country?

In case people don't know what's going on in CA. The roads are all tore up, everywhere. From highways to No Outlet streets (with little to no traffice.) Sidewalks are buckled and cracked all over the place. There's no money to even try to fix them. I see home owners using picks, grinders... trying to file down the gaps. The children can't even ride a bicycle on the sidewalk without wiping out. I'm talking 2-4 inch height gaps between the slabs. There are puddles in the streets all over the place too. The pitch of the curb is 'warped'. The water can't flow to the storm sewers. I live in a 500K to 2Mil neighborhood. (But it's the same all over.) I'm going out to take pics and I'll post them in a few hours.