Rise in child abuse linked to foreclosure crisis | The Niche Report

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(MarketWatch) ? Researchers this week said they found a relationship between the rate of child physical abuse and the rate of local foreclosures.

The Children?s Hospital of Philadelphia?s PolicyLab based its findings on information from 38 children?s hospitals.

Overall physical abuse rose by 0.79% per year and traumatic brain injury rose 3% per year between 2000 and 2009; overall injury rates fell 0.8% per year over the time period, according to the research. Each 1% increase in 90-day mortgage delinquencies over the previous year was associated with a 3% increase in hospital admissions due to child physical abuse and a 5% increase in traumatic brain injury admissions that were suspected to be child abuse.

?We were concerned that health-care providers and child-welfare workers anecdotally reported seeing more severe child physical abuse cases, yet national child-protective services data indicated a downward trend,? said lead author Joanne Wood, an attending physician at CHOP and researcher at PolicyLab, in a news release. ?It?s well known that economic stress has been linked to an increase in child physical abuse, so we wanted to get to the bottom of the contrasting reports by formally studying hospital data on a larger scale.?

Read more in this week?s Real Estate pages, including the impact of foreclosures on retirees, the top 10 threats facing real estate in the next few decades and a Realty Q&A about how to outsmart the competition and submit a winning bid on a house.

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