Black children are suffering higher rates of abuse — and woke officials are making it worseBy Naomi Schaefer Riley
February 2, 2022
Do black lives matter? What about black children’s lives?
Federal data released this week showed 504 black children died from maltreatment in 2020 — 73 more than in 2019. Black children were three times more likely to die from abuse or neglect than white children. Given that New York state’s overall number of child fatalities rose from 69 to 105 that year, it’s likely much of this problem is happening in our own backyard.
Responding to the report, JooYeun Chang, Administration for Children and Families assistant secretary, said that “there is still work to do.” No kidding. Where is the outrage? Are there any protests in the streets?
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But Chang and the activists don’t want to talk about what is causing these disparities. Besides their higher fatality rate, black children are almost twice as likely as white ones to be abused or neglected — a rate of 13.2 for every 100,000 kids vs. 7.4 for white kids. (Native Americans suffer at the highest rate: 15.5 victims for every 100,000 kids.)
Advocates claim this is the result of racism, but then how do you explain the victimization rate for Hispanic children, which is almost exactly the same as that for white ones? Or that especially in cities like New York, the vast majority of the investigators are black or Hispanic professionals? And how do you explain all these black children dying at the hands of their own family members or other dangerous people living in their homes?
Nevertheless, in an effort to combat the structural racism of the “family policing system,” a movement to abolish the child-welfare system has sprung up. Using the “Defund the Police” movement as a model, its leaders demand the elimination of foster care and congregate care, of mandated reporting of maltreatment (by teachers and doctors, for instance) and of drug testing of infants and new mothers. They also want less police involvement in domestic violence (because it leads to more reporting of child maltreatment).
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2022/02/02/black-children-are-suffering-higher-rates-of-abuse-and-woke-officials-make-it-worse/
