Word: neglectment
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...corner is the caf? Alois S., whose owner, a balding 48-year-old named Lothar Heer clad in a Grateful Dead t-shirt, says his original plan was to build a tapas bar. That was 2001, when his establishment stood alongside a playground bearing the scars of communist neglect. After fighting with sluggish city bureaucrats for a couple of years, Heer got permission to break open the walls and open a terrace out onto the playground. Then, he and some local parents formed a citizens group and applied for and were actually awarded some 20,000 euros ($27,000) from...
...Army families certainly know how stressful deployments are - better than any of us," says Gibbs. "I don't want any army family to feel like we're suggesting that they're more likely to experience abuse and neglect than other families." No studies have looked at other branches of the military in the same way, says Gibbs...
Government statistics note that in 2004, 1.1 million children (under the age of 18) were maltreated in enlisted soldiers' families. Gibbs and colleagues cite another soon-to-be-published study that found "the rates of neglect in U.S. Army families increased sharply between 2001 and 2004, reversing a decade-long downward trend...
...certainly aren't surprised that neglect would be the type of abuse that would go up," says Dolores Johnson, director of the Family Advocacy Program for the Army, "because we have extended periods of separation of parents, and when that occurs our own analysis indicates that child neglect is likely to rise." Johnson says that the study reveals that continuous deployment, of 12 to 18 months, is causing families to feel "a certain degree of strain...
...stay-at-home parent certainly begins to feel that pinch, either in forms of depression or neglect situations," says Johnson. "Even though [these families] are resilient, I think that they know that these deployments are taking a toll...