By Karen Jowers - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Aug 1, 2007 12:11:28 EDT
In Army enlisted families with at least one incident of child abuse, the children are far more likely to be abused during deployments, researchers have found.
And the type of abuse is likely to be child neglect at the hands of their mothers, according to a study to be published in the Aug. 1 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association by researchers at RTI International and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health.
More at http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/07/military_childabuse_070731w/
