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Westat then determined if the reported "harms" and "conditions" met the study's definitions of "abuse" and "neglect," and generated estimates of incidence.
Concerned, I wrote to Secretary Shalala in March, stating: "The Westat findings may be extremely significant, but there is reason to doubt that they reflect an actual increase in abuse and neglect."
Some of the increases in sexual abuse, physical abuse, and physical neglect uncovered by Westat may well reflect a true deterioration of conditions in disorganized, poverty-stricken households.
In the new study, about 5,600 professionals, a representative sample, were asked by Westat whether the children they had served appeared to have suffered specified harms or to be living under specified conditions.
The great majority of emotional-abuse cases, according to the 1986 Westat study, involved "verbal assaults," and more than half of the emotional-neglect cases involved "the refusal or delay of psychological care."