Advocacy Etcetera

With the advent of integrated data systems a more comprehensive sociological model is created to educate and empower citizens to integrate a more acceptable and humane society. An acceptable and humane society begins with the care of our infants and children. To that end, competent child advocacy is imperative. Integrated data systems show the correlations between poverty, domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, public education, addiction, crime, incarceration and recidivism. The child abuse statistics in the United States clearly show that 21st century America is failing and the repercussions will be considerable. According to a Children's Bureau 2015 report, 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys will be sexually abused before their eighteenth birthday. 3% of girls were age ten or younger before their first rape or victimization. 80% of child fatalities involve at least one parent. The financial cost of child abuse and neglect in the United States is estimated at 585 billion dollar...