Birth Order as a Possible Correlate of Child Abuse

Child abuse as a stressor of pediatricians.

A survey of: 1) sources of perceived stress, 2) stress management, and 3) burnout among members of the American Academy of Pediatrics Sections on Child Abuse and Emergency Medicine indicates that child abuse physicians are stressed by the history, physical examination, and court appearances in abuse cases. Rarely did physicians indicate that this stress adversely affected their sexual life or f...

A case of congenital syphilis mistaken for possible child abuse

We describe the case of a 4-month-old male infant diagnosed with early congenital syphilis during evaluation of a left distal humerus fracture. This report emphasizes the importance of screening for syphilis among pregnant women and newborns, and is a reminder of the continued existence of congenital syphilis. (Korean J Pediatr 2009;52:710-712)

Child abuse and its effects on birth. A research.

Objective birth data and the prediction of child abuse.

The Cardiff Births Survey contains objective data that are easily collected and are reproducible between observers. We have compared survey records of 80 abused children with those of 80 control children. Of 44 factors that were examined 11 were appreciably more common in abused children. Such factors included the fact that the baby was preterm and had been admitted to a special care baby unit....

Birth order as a quantitative expression of date of birth.

Publications on birth order mostly differ in their findings. In 1874 Galton1 stated that firstborn dominated among eminent men. Thirty years later, Pearson2 claimed that society was corrupted through the defects of firstborn. Surveys3-covering hundreds of books and articles give a remarkably inconsistent picture of the influence of sibling position on physical and psychological development. In ...