Shaken Baby Syndrome or Diagnostic Myth?

Advocates promoting Shaken Baby awareness would like you to believe that more children are violently shaken and/ or abusively impacted each year. However, one has to wonder if more infants and small children are really in abusive situations or is there something else going on?

Not since the early 1980’s when alleged cases of sexual abuse grew at staggering rates has America seen so many allegations, convictions or removed more children from loving homes. In fact, there are some grave similarities in cases of alleged Shaken Baby Syndrome

Diagnosed by theories with no test data to confirm it’s actual existence. (In fact, a series of articles by medical researchers actually indicate that shaking alone does not cause injury.)

Diagnosed by medical practitioners who do not specialize in the field of pediatric neuro-radiology, biomechanics, neurology, neuropathology, pathology, neurosurgery, or anything remotely associated with the central nervous system disorders. Absent a history of accidental trauma (e.g. a serious car accident, a fall from a two story building) these practitioners diagnose "child abuse."

Regardless of the circumstances provided to the medical provider at the time a child is brought into the hospital, the all too frequent diagnosis is Shaken Baby Syndrome.

If, in the evaluation of an infant, subdural hematomas, retinal bleeding and/ or broken bones are discovered, the odds are highly probably that the person who last was caring for the child will be accused and criminally charged with felony child abuse.

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"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic." John F. Kennedy

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