Spinal lesions in battered babies.

Ocular damage in the battered-baby syndrome.

Twelve out of 19 battered babies seen with ocular damage have permanent impairment of vision affecting one or both eyes. Ocular disease, especially retinal haemorrhage, is common in the battered-baby syndrome, and infants with this condition should always have a complete ophthalmic examination.

Toxoplasma encephalitis in a raw steak eater

THIS paper describes the case of a woman with a history of anorexia nervosa, who battered her first child and starved her second child to death. The matter came to attention during a major research study into the psychiatric aspects of parents of battered babies. The association of anorexia nervosa in a mother with failure to thrive and death of her child does not appear to have been previously...

Letter: Parents of battered babies.

Parents of battered babies: a controlled study.

A controlled investigation of 214 parents of battered babies shows that they were young and predominantly of lower social class. Premature parenthood is an associated feature. Among the mothers 76% had an abnormal personality and 48% were neurotic. Nearly half were of borderline or subnormal intelligence; 11% had a criminal record. Of the fathers 64% had an abnormal personality, more than half ...

[Battered babies, a medical and social problem].