News Child Abuse Rises In Connection With Soldiers' Deployments

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Children under age two may be at heightened risk for abuse and neglect during the six months immediately following a parent's return from deployment in the US Army, and the risk may rise among Army families with soldiers who are deployed more than once, suggests new research.
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Adam Smith's "wealth of nations" noted in the mid 18th century that garrison towns were always teeming with children

But so few survived that a regiment could barely manage to keep itself supplied with a Regimental drummer boy.