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Page 4/The Battalion/Thursday, January 9, 1984
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child abuse
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Child iubuse in Bryan-College
Station iss the concern of the
newly-for med chapter of Moth
ers (and others) Against Mur
der. Or MTAAM, for short.
The local chapter is just get
ting start_ed and needs con
cerned rxnembers, president
Sandy Leaitherwood says.
The go»al of the non-profit
organizati on, which has 46
chapters throughout Texas, is
to educate the public about
child abuses and to work toward
stricter state legislation, she
says.
“There are good laws on the
books but «:hey’re just not being
enforced,”"says Leatherwood,
who is the mother of a 2-year-
old and a 1-4-year-old.
“Child afcuse is alive and well
in Bryan-CJollege Station. We
want to ma ke people aware this
is a serious problem.”
Child ab use and neglect are
against the law in Texas. So is
the failure to report suspected
cases of chil-d mistreatment.
A spokessman for the Child
Abuse Hothine in Austin says a
person who reports suspected
child abuse or neglect in good
faith to the proper authorities is
protected by law. Investigation
of child abu se reports is the re
sponsibility of the Texas De
partment of Human Resources.
“Our basi«c policy or philoso-
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phy is to protect the children
and put the families back toge
ther,’’says Benjamin Robbins, a
Child Protective Services
worker for the DHR in Brazos
County. “We were involved
with approximately 270 families
last year.”
He says the most common
type of child abuse or neglect is
lack of supervision.
The DHR studies also indi
cate that most people who mis
treat children were abused
when they were children.
“There are some people who
wouldn’t loan a car, a dress or a
gun to their best friend,” he
says, “but they aren’t that par
ticular about their kids.”
The DHR investigates sus
pected child abuse, provides
counseling for the family in
volved and removes the child
from the home, if necessary,
Robbins says. But the DHR can
not file charges against the sus
pected offenders.
The founder of MAAM Ste
phanie Boucher says a lack of
any one organization’s author
ity is a major breakdown in the
present system dealing with
child abuse.
“Too often an abused child is
killed because someone thought
it more important to keep the
family together than to guard
against the potential for further
abuse,” Boucher says. “Every
case is different and not all fam
ilies can be helped with counsel
ing.”
More effective prosecution
and better training are needed
to build court cases, she says.
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SAN ANTONIO — There
have been no hunger riots in
Mexico — suffering its worst
economic crisis since the Great
Depression — but the govern
ment is studying means of pro
viding poor families with free
food, an economist told mem
bers of the Texas Newspaper
Editors Association Wednesday.
Dr. Edmundo Flores, univer
sity professor and former eco
nomic adviser to President Luis
Humana Hospital Bryan/College Station
has Immediate Openings
for
A.R.R.T.s
Echeverria, said the working
people of Mexico are bearing
the brunt of the country’s eco
nomic woes, brought about by a
glut in the world oil market and
the fiight of capital from Mex
ico into the United Stales.
Dr. Gabriel Szekely of the
Center of International Studies,
College of Mexico, is scheduled
to address the editors and pub
lishers Thursday.
Flores said government ex-
E erts are working quietly, be-
ind the scenes, to develop a
food package system for poor,
unemployed people to make
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“The government has been
working very quietly to provide
food for survival,” he said. “We
have studied American (food)
stamp programs and we are
working on a program that will
provide the unemployed with
enough food for survival.”
Flores said Mexico, unlike
other Central American nations
and Third World countries, can
rise above the present crisis.
“There is hope for Mexico,” he
said.
Part of Mexico’s stability in
the present crisis, Flores said,
stems from the government’s
solidarity with the lower
class.
“M ost of Mexico’s p
leadership has come fn
working class,” he said
poor and the lower midi
can relate to the leaders'
country because they art.
kited, somehow.”
Mexico’s cost of living
creased to 150 percent
first of the series of
uations in 1982, he said
“The reaction of rhe
has been to restrict
Flores said. “Food like
steaks have been exchanj
beans. The people
slopped buying televisiml
and radios.”
Working people are
the price for the country
nomic problems, he
ing that Mexico will coni
honor its agreements
International MonetaryFsj
Flores said the present
economic crisis hit w
warning, unlike the G
pression of the 1930s.
“The 1929 crisis was
dieted by economists,"
said. “Everyone saw itc
but no one announced the
val of this crisis.
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Dr. Pat Bradley of the Sports Physiology Laboratory, U.S.
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will present topics from the professions of Athletic Training,
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“Prior to the devaM
Mexico was experiencing!
closest we have ever comet«|
employment,” he said,
maids were working im
struction, enjoying our prtfl
ity”
Also addressing the
and publishers was Dr.
Bosch, who delivered a^
arly history of relationships
tween the United Stales
Mexico in the 19th and
centuries.
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