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Also, in discounting the rise in incidence found in the NIS-3, Besharov and Dembosky contend that "fatalities arising from child abuse have held roughly steady" between 1986 and 1993.
On balance, though, I think that as the administration is going to fall back on NIS-3 to support anything they plan to do--and to block programs they don't want--it is wise to push for a more honest accounting of the study.
If Besharov and Dembosky want to discount both increments by appealing to the same process (enhanced sensitivity) then they need to explain (1) why this process applied discontinuously in the NIS-3 and did not affect the intervening category of moderate injury or harm, and (2) how the NIS-2 respondents managed to overlook three-fourths of the children who had been seriously injured while at the same time evidencing greater sensitivity in identifying moderately injured children.
However, educational neglect and emotional maltreatment have always been included in the incidence studies, and eliminating them from the picture would not eradicate the significant drop in the overall rate of CPS investigations from the NIS-2 to the NIS-3.
First, when Besharov and Dembosky characterized the 1.4 million additional children who joined the ranks of the maltreated between 1986 and 1993, they summed up the NIS-3 estimates in inappropriate ways to draw their conclusions.