Word: ferzoco
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Dates: during 1978-1978
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...children. Beyond that, the causes of child abuse seem to be deep-rooted anger and frustration and an intolerable sense of physical or emotional inadequacy. Anger most of all "They don't know how to control it," says Belisle's co-worker Anna Ferzoco. "And when they get angry they hit." Some women can be taught not to hurt their children simply by getting instruction, literally, in such things as how to do housework efficiently, care for the child properly, cook meals. Women who have been abandoned by husbands are frequent child abusers, though they often depend emotionally...
...clear they've been hurting the child." Claims of parental love, denials of guilt, promises to reform, all inevitably affect the findings of judges when child defenders go to the courts attempting to take children away. "I think my biggest problem with the job," says Ferzoco, who like Belisle now acts as a phone screener, "was going to court all the time and seeing the judge return kids to parents who I knew for certain were going to go on hitting them...
...Ferzoco points to a row of children's photographs lining the top of her desk. Picking out one of three smiling, hand someblond children, she says, "These were all from the same mother. The youngest was only six weeks old when I got a call from the hospital. The mother brought it in because it wouldn't stop crying." The child had a broken collar bone, and when the doctor examined it further, he found several other partially healed fractures. "Only six weeks old and she'd done that already," Ferzoco says. "We finally took the baby...