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Paid Family Leave Tied to Decline in Child Abuse [Consumer.Healthday.com]

 

Paid family leave might lead to reduced risk of abuse-related head injuries in young children, according to a new study.

Researchers compared data from 1995 through 2011 in California -- which introduced paid family leave in 2004 -- with seven states without such a policy: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts and Wisconsin.

After California introduced paid family leave, there was a decline in rates of hospital admissions for abuse-related head injuries in children younger than 2 years old, the investigators found.



[For more of this story go to http://consumer.healthday.com/...children-708331.html]

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