Here is the next public health crisis that will demand bureaucratic solutions, government intervention, and the federalization of Child Protective Services: child abuse. This article on MSN Health presents some statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control that appears to set the pace for federal oversight of snatching children from homes to force them into government custody.
“No child should ever be the victim of abuse or neglect — nor do they have to be. The human and financial costs can be prevented through prevention of child maltreatment,” Linda Degutis, director of the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, said in an agency news release.
…”Federal, state and local public health agencies, as well as policymakers, must advance the awareness of the lifetime economic impact of child maltreatment and take immediate action with the same momentum and intensity dedicated to other high profile public health problems — in order to save lives, protect the public’s health, and save money,” Degutis said.
Since child abuse is now a public health crisis, and since a farcical government study has shown that this crisis is just as costly as other “public health problems,” the federal government, while acting in the interest of public health, surely will have to declare a war on child abuse and ramp up its efforts to remove these abused children from their beastly homes. Here is the CDC press release. Thanks to Greg Privette for the link.
