Females tend to be abused more often than males, and the perpetrator is usually male, although homosexual abuse and cases where females abuse male children so occur. ... This is particularly true of parents who physically abuse or neglect infants. Some parents, particularly young or teenage parents, don't have a realistic idea of how easily an infant can be hurt or how much stronger they are than the baby. They don't realize how unsafe it is to leave infants or toddlers alone in the house or how damaging it is to tie them to a bed to protect them while the parent goes out. ...

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"Shaken Baby Syndrome is caused by vigorous shaking of an infant or damage, Forceful shaking can cause bleeding to the mental, retardation, speech and learning disability, paralysis, seizures, hearing loss, and even death." ... Head trauma is the most frequent cause of permeant damage or death between abused infants and children, and shaking accounts for a significant number of those cases" By shaking a baby, the baby's fragile brain will slam against the skull wall resulting in cerebral hemorrhage, swelling and bruises. ... Females who injure babies by shaking them are...

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• Grade Level: High School

"Shaken Baby Syndrome is caused by vigorous shaking of an infant or damage, Forceful shaking can cause bleeding to the mental, retardation, speech and learning disability, paralysis, seizures, hearing loss, and even death." ... Head trauma is the most frequent cause of permeant damage or death between abused infants and children, and shaking accounts for a significant number of those cases" By shaking a baby, the baby's fragile brain will slam against the skull wall resulting in cerebral hemorrhage, swelling and bruises. ... Females who injure babies by shaking them are...

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• Grade Level: High School

Infant and pre-school children are more likely to suffer fractures, burns and bruises. ... Although school aged or adolescent females are more likely to suffer from sexual molestation, there are a recently growing number of sexual abuses of pre-school and male victims. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School