shaken baby syndrome

Shaken Baby Syndrome
Studies estimate that fifteen percent of children’s deaths are due to battering or shaking and an additional fifteen percent are possible cases of shaking. Shaken Baby Syndrome victims range in age from a couple of days to a few months old, but six months is the average. Statistics show that one shaken baby in four dies. In the year 95-96, thirteen babies out of thirty-seven died from a combination of Shaken Baby Syndrome and head trauma in the state of Florida. More than sixty percent of the victims of Shaken Baby Syndrome are male and almost eighty percent of the perpetrators of Shaken Baby Syndrome are male. Fifty percent of offenders of the Shaken Baby Syndrome are the babies’ natural parents, seventeen percent are the mother’s boyfriends, six percent are the stepparents, and ten percent are others: such as babysitters. Shaken Baby Syndrome is a type of abuse that severely hurts a child and causes many consequences for the baby and the families of the people involved.
“Shaking Baby Syndrome (SBS), also called Shaken Baby Syndrome, is one of the leading killers of infants. Sadly it is also 100% preventable.” (The Essential Infant Resource for Moms. 2007-2010). The Shaken Baby Syndrome is a type of inflicted painful brain injury that happens when a baby is violently shaken. Infants have very weak neck muscles and large and heavy heads in proportion to their bodies. The infant brain is immature and needs room to grow; there is naturally a s...

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