Oklahoma has always had nothing. Low is low and others go low also because of others living low! Like my college professor liked to say "Education is like the water that covers the poop in a toilet the less you have the more the poop comes out." Nasty is nasty with everyone smelling the poop (Child Abuse along other things!) So this is a real issue said for a reason! No one should keep a bad child hood of abuse silent they should vent about it!
"The Silent Epidemic: Child Sexual Abuse." https://health.usnews.com/health-care/for-better/articles/2018-06-01/the-silent-epidemic-child-sexual-abuse
"The Silent Epidemic: Child Sexual Abuse." https://health.usnews.com/health-care/for-better/articles/2018-06-01/the-silent-epidemic-child-sexual-abuse
Well it's true! "Poorest, states have Republican legislatures, and richest have Democratic ones."
So having a low foundation is less resources so in the mess children get it also! "The article identifies factors such as mental health, substance abuse, teenage pregnancy, lack of education, economic stress and generational poverty as contributors to the problem."
~~~~~Child abuse statistics show how budget policy matters (Capitol Updates)
The Tulsa World began a series on child abuse Sunday that reminds us the problem in Oklahoma is getting worse, not better. Last year 15,252 cases of child abuse or neglect were confirmed by the Department of Human Services. That’s compared with 7,248 cases in 2010, and the number has increased every year between 2010 and 2015. Foster care placements have hovered at about 10,500 to 11,000 children since 2013. The article identifies factors such as mental health, substance abuse, teenage pregnancy, lack of education, economic stress and generational poverty as contributors to the problem.
