Letter: Increase in Child Abuse

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Re "How Googling Unmasks Child Abuse" (Sunday Review, July 14):

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz's conclusion that child maltreatment increased during the recession is worrisome.

Also worrisome is the fact that child abuse prevention and treatment organizations have been starved of the resources needed to help such children. In recent years, dozens of federal programs for children have been eliminated or have seen their funding reduced, affecting everything from child safety to health and education.

Most ominous of all are the observations of children's advocates in my organization and many others across the country that right now, children who need protection from maltreatment are often in more difficult and dangerous circumstances because they and their parents did not get the help they needed during the depths of the recession.

Yet the draining of funds for child abuse prevention and treatment continues. And that is only going to cost us more now — as well as in the future.

MICHAEL PIRAINO
Seattle, July 17, 2013

The writer is chief executive of the National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association.

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