Time for a reality check.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/lifestyle/lifematters/child-neglect-cited-as-equal-to-physical-or-sex-abuse-20101226-197xe.html

"CHILD neglect can be just as harmful to children's cognitive development as physical and sexual abuse, a new study shows.

But child protection authorities do not treat neglect with the same urgency as other forms of child maltreatment."

Of course, that may have something to do with the cloud of misinformation put about by people like Elspeth McInnes, Michael Flood, Dale Bagshaw and Patricia Merkin for their own purposes, which have more to do with pocket-lining than the protection of children.

They should be ashamed, but that doesn't seem to be an emotion that has much currency in the Single-Mother's Club.

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/peds.2009-3479v1

"Child Abuse and Neglect and Cognitive Function at 14 Years of Age: Findings From a Birth Cohort"

"Objective To examine the association between child maltreatment (abuse and neglect) and long-term cognitive outcomes within a prospective birth cohort."

"Conclusions Both child abuse and child neglect are independently associated with impaired cognition and academic functioning in adolescence. These findings suggest that both abuse and neglect have independent and important adverse effects on a child's cognitive development."

The data all show that the greatest risk of neglect is if a child is in a single-mother household. Over 90% of substantiated cases of neglect and over 70% of cases of physical abuse occur in the mother's care.

And some more on the same topic

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pediatrics/DomesticViolence/23748

"The 7,223 participating mothers were interviewed at their first antenatal visit, then shortly after delivery, and again when the children reached five years.

Slightly more than half of the children were available for evaluation at 14 years, when they completed the Wide Range Achievement Test and Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices examination.

For their analysis, the researchers obtained reports of maltreatment from the Queensland Department of Families, Youth, and Community Care.

They found that 10.9% of the cohort had at some point been the subject of a formal report of abuse or neglect, with 7% having been substantiated.

More than 60% of abused or neglected children -- a disproportionately high number, according to the authors -- had been lost to follow-up and failed to complete either of the tests.

"In this cohort, the subjects who were lost to follow-up were consistently of more adverse socioeconomic background than those who were tested at the age of 14 and at the same time were more likely to have been reported as cases of abuse or neglect," the researchers observed.

Among the 3,796 children who underwent the testing at age 14, 7.9% had been reported to the agency.

A total of 6.8% had been reported for suspected abuse and 4% for suspected neglect. Three quarters of those reported for suspected neglect had also been reported for abuse, according to the researchers.

Their findings of adverse cognitive consequences for both abuse and neglect "support the notion that child neglect has developmental effects that are independently at least as deleterious as abuse, which has important implications for the allocation of resources into additional research into, and prevention of, child neglect," they wrote."

happy, this is an example of "credible" research. you won't find it mentioned at the Bagshaw factory, I'm sure.

We R Uneek - I do most humbly apologise. I had forgotten that you are so much more knowledgeable on these matters than the APA and WHO and their studies and knowledge do not begin to approach the level which you have acquired.
"....sociopaths can exist in many different forms and to many different degrees. They can also be found in all races, cultures, and socioeconomic levels. The sociopath could be the intelligent and very successful businessman that goes home each night and abuses his family. He could be the temperamental man that visits the bar regularly and who often gets into brawls. The sociopath could be the prison inmate who was just released last month, and who is already back in prison or the hateful man that lives on the block that no one seems to be able to get along with. He could be that career-climbing businessman or politician that doesn't care who they destroy in the process. It could even be that man that can't seem to get enough of adrenaline-pumping adventures like bungee jumping, skydiving, and motorcycle racing. Or, he could be that quiet, polite man that no one ever suspected was a serial killer."
T which I'd add they also haunt regularly internet forums inflicting their inflated and skewed self-opinions on others.

"they also haunt regularly internet forums inflicting their inflated and skewed self-opinions on others"

They could be the sort of person who would post a description of sociopaths where every example was male, no gender neutrality, no female examples.

R0bert

Experience is quite different from 'knowledge' ChazP.

Lived it, breathed it, worked it. Have you? What is your story in life ChazP apart from copying and pasting sociopathic material on OLO that Australians are quite able to research themselves on the net of their own accord without being forced down their throats like some religious mantra.

WHO have conducted some great studies, carry out excellent work, particularly during pandemics epidemics and so forth. I have worked with some staff members a few years ago again on one health issue.

Decisions made on health diseases and treatment are constantly updated after trials and after implementation. Await the updates, it occurs in the Australian health industry frequently. I daresay you will be quoting changes on the same material you are copying and pasting previously relating to mental health conditions.

ChazP:"I daresay you will be quoting changes on the same material you are copying and pasting previously relating to mental health conditions."

Only if the changes say "all men are bastards, so there". Some forms of sociopathy are simply not amenable to rational treatment.