CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WV News) — The West Virginia Department of Human Services, Bureau for Social Services, joins organizations and advocates from across the nation in recognizing April as National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
The color blue, and silver and blue pinwheels, are the recognized symbols for child abuse prevention.
The goal: To highlight the importance of families and communities working together to prevent child abuse and neglect.
Gov. Jim Justice also proclaimed April as Family Strengthening and Child Abuse Prevention Month in West Virginia.
“Nothing is more important than our children — their safety and their future,” said Jeff Pack, Bureau for Social Services commissioner. “This month isn’t just about talk; it’s about rolling up our sleeves and continuing our hard work. Let’s act, not just for today, but for the safer, brighter tomorrows every child deserves.”
To show support for children and families and to help build momentum for Family Strengthening and Child Abuse Prevention Month, West Virginians are encouraged to participate in “Wear Blue Day” on Friday.
The color blue, and silver and blue pinwheels, are the recognized symbols for child abuse prevention.
The Bureau for Social Services’ Centralized Intake for Abuse and Neglect Hotline is available 24/7, 365 days a year, to address calls concerning suspected abuse or neglect of children and vulnerable adults. Dial 1-800-352-6513 to report.
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If it’s physically survived, chronic abuse left prolongedly unhindered readily results in a helpless child's brain improperly developing. The emotional and/or psychological trauma acts as a starting point into a life in which the brain uncontrollably releases potentially damaging levels of inflammation-promoting stress hormones and chemicals, even in non-stressful daily routines.
It can amount to non-physical-impact brain-damage abuse: It has been described as a continuous, discomforting anticipation of ‘the other shoe dropping’ and simultaneously being scared of how badly you will deal with the upsetting event, which usually never transpires.
The lasting emotional/psychological pain from such trauma is very formidable yet invisibly confined to inside one's head. It is solitarily suffered, unlike an openly visible physical disability or condition, which tends to elicit sympathy/empathy from others. It can make every day a mental ordeal, unless the turmoil is prescription and/or illicitly medicated. To a significant degree, I know such self-medicating from personal experience. ...
Actually, parental failure can occur as soon as their decision to conceive and carry a baby to term. By this I mean that too many people will procreate regardless of not being sufficiently knowledgeable of child development to ensure parenting in a psychologically functional/healthy manner.
Many seem to perceive thus treat human procreative ‘rights’ as though they (potential parents) will somehow, in blind anticipation, be innately inclined to sufficiently understand and appropriately nurture their children’s naturally developing minds and needs.
As liberal democracies, we cannot prevent anyone from bearing children, including the incompetent and reckless procreators. We can, however, educate all young people for the most important job ever, even those high-schoolers who plan to remain childless.
If nothing else, such child-development curriculum could offer students an idea/clue as to whether they’re emotionally suited for the immense responsibility and strains of parenthood. Given what is at stake, should they not at least be equipped with such valuable science-based knowledge?
Child abuse likely happens much more frequently than we, society, like to believe. And maybe some or many child-abusing parents feel entitled to do so, they having did their part in creating their offspring.
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If it’s physically survived, chronic abuse left prolongedly unhindered readily results in a helpless child's brain improperly developing. The emotional and/or psychological trauma acts as a starting point into a life in which the brain uncontrollably releases potentially damaging levels of inflammation-promoting stress hormones and chemicals, even in non-stressful daily routines.
It can amount to non-physical-impact brain-damage abuse: It has been described as a continuous, discomforting anticipation of ‘the other shoe dropping’ and simultaneously being scared of how badly you will deal with the upsetting event, which usually never transpires.
The lasting emotional/psychological pain from such trauma is very formidable yet invisibly confined to inside one's head. It is solitarily suffered, unlike an openly visible physical disability or condition, which tends to elicit sympathy/empathy from others. It can make every day a mental ordeal, unless the turmoil is prescription and/or illicitly medicated. To a significant degree, I know such self-medicating from personal experience. ...
Actually, parental failure can occur as soon as their decision to conceive and carry a baby to term. By this I mean that too many people will procreate regardless of not being sufficiently knowledgeable of child development to ensure parenting in a psychologically functional/healthy manner.
Many seem to perceive thus treat human procreative ‘rights’ as though they (potential parents) will somehow, in blind anticipation, be innately inclined to sufficiently understand and appropriately nurture their children’s naturally developing minds and needs.
As liberal democracies, we cannot prevent anyone from bearing children, including the incompetent and reckless procreators. We can, however, educate all young people for the most important job ever, even those high-schoolers who plan to remain childless.
If nothing else, such child-development curriculum could offer students an idea/clue as to whether they’re emotionally suited for the immense responsibility and strains of parenthood. Given what is at stake, should they not at least be equipped with such valuable science-based knowledge?
Child abuse likely happens much more frequently than we, society, like to believe. And maybe some or many child-abusing parents feel entitled to do so, they having did their part in creating their offspring.
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