... abuse the children again. Few subjects are uglier than child abuse. And despite new community- based preventive programs in each borough, a toll-free New York State child- abuse hot line to register complaints, and the mandating of ...

... abuse the hot topic, both the government and the American Medical Association had warned the nation that domestic violence was an epidemic. In 1992, in fact, the U.S. surgeon general ranked abuse by husbands and boyfriends as the ...

... abuse "may be one of the most common causes of death in children." In the U.S.A., 2,000 youngsters are abused to death each year. Only cancer, accidents, congenital abnormalities, and pneumonia take more young lives there. West German ...

... abuse. "Abuse can vary from shoving and slapping to incredible beatings and the use of weapons," says marriage, family and child counselor Linda Coffey, who is executive director of WTLC. "One woman woke up one night as her husband ...

... abuse. In a study published in the journal Developmental Review, Penelope Trickett, a childhood abuse expert at the University of Southern California, compared the developmental consequences of physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect ...

... abuse: The program was among the first in the United States to offer a fellowship in child abuse and neglect; and in 2007, reflecting the advances made in places like the Mayerson Center, the American Board of Pediatrics recognized Child ...

... abuse," Dr. Williams says. "Our battered women are encouraged to keep silent about the different types of abuse they suffer because they know how the judicial system is going to act. One of the consequences of [reporting the abuse] ...

... abuse of illegal drugs that is rampant in Black communities, especially among youths. While drug abuse has long ceased to be an exclusively Black problem, it is Black people who are most crucially affected. Clearly, no vice does more ...

... abuse! The woman, 55, was arrested after the president of a horticultural society in the city of Cali, Colombia, complained to authorities that she had killed a total of 127 plants and trees over a period of eight months. Police ...

... abuse in day-care centers. The three -year, $200,000 study by the University of New Hampshire's Family Research Laboratory found that if there is an "epidemic" of child abuse, it's in the home — where children are almost twice as likely ...