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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s signature on the fine increase came one day after he signed nine other bills tightening state oversight of the more than 7,500 assisted-living homes in California, marking the state’s most sweeping overhaul of the industry in nearly three decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time, assisted living residents will have a statutory bill of rights like the one protecting nursing home residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homes’ staffs also will face stiffer training requirements, and owners will pay higher licensing fees. A staff member with CPR training must be present at homes at all times, and operators will be prohibited from punishing employees who call 911 to get emergency care for sick residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s signature on the reform package is a major victory for assisted living residents, said Patricia McGinnis, executive director of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, the state’s largest advocacy group for long-term care residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We look at it as a good start,” said McGinnis. “But we’re not finished by any stretch of the imagination. And I don’t think the legislators are, either. I think they like the fact that they’re going to be changing people’s lives on an immediate basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the assisted-living bills that Brown did sign were backed by McGinnis's group and the California Assisted Living Association, the state’s largest industry association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both groups had pulled their support of the bill to raise fines after it was, in their view, weakened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/169949480&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four San Diego legislators played key roles in the reform effort: Democratic Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins and Democratic Sen. Marty Block; and Republican Assembly members Brian Maienschein of San Diego and Marie Waldron of Escondido.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown signed Atkins’ bill last month requiring that all assisted living facilities \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/09/05/two-women-on-a-mission-to-reform-assisted-living-in-california/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/09/05/two-women-on-a-mission-to-reform-assisted-living-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\">carry liability insurance\u003c/a>. Brown signed Block’s two bills Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Block said he intentionally chose the bill name SB-911 for one of his measures, which will protect facility employees who call for emergency care for sick residents. Some employees have said they fear calling 911 because managers say it reflects badly on a home’s record, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same bill raises the training mandate for administrators to 80 hours from 40. Brown also has signed a parallel bill, authored by Assembly Member Wesley Chesbro, D-Arcata, requiring more training for staff caring for residents, including those with dementia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sally Michael, president of the industry group California Assisted Living Association -- which, along with McGinnis’ group, supported a number of the reform measures -- said it is pleased by Brown’s actions, particularly his signing of the Chesbro bill and Block’s SB 911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These bills increase the number of hours required for assisted living caregiver and administrator training. They also improve the administrator testing process by making it more rigorous,” Michael said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Block’s second bill boosts facility licensing fees by 10 percent, which, coupled with the administration’s separate 10 percent increase, will boost fees by 20 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Block initially proposed a 30 percent increase. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20126\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/07/RS1449_saccapitoldome090911-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20126\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/07/RS1449_saccapitoldome090911-scr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"State officials have until Monday to submit plan. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill giving $3 million to financially troubled Doctors Medical Center in western Contra Costa County. The hospital has been in danger of closing for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB883\" href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB883\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB883\u003c/a> appropriates the money from the state’s \u003ca title=\"http://www.mrmib.ca.gov/mrmib/mrmip.shtml\" href=\"http://www.mrmib.ca.gov/mrmib/mrmip.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Major Risk Medical Insurance Fund\u003c/a> to the West Contra Costa Healthcare District, which oversees Doctors Medical Center. It is considered “bridge funding,” according to a release from Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), an author of the bill, so that the hospital and health care district have time to identify more secure funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\">“Doctors Medical Center is the safety net hospital for Richmond, San Pablo and other West Contra County communities. Its closure would leave a community in need without emergency care, cardio, dialysis and other critical hospital services,” Skinner said in a statement.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\">“The governor’s support of this $3 million lifeline expands our window for pursuing solutions to continue to meet these critical health care needs.” \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doctors Medical Center (DMC) has been\u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/05/do-or-die-for-doctors-medical-center-but-not-for-lack-of-trying\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/05/do-or-die-for-doctors-medical-center-but-not-for-lack-of-trying\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> struggling financially for more than a decade\u003c/a>. The crisis hit hard in early August when (DMC) stopped accepting \u003ca title=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/my-town/ci_26292817/doctors-medical-center-ends-emergency-ambulance-service\" href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/my-town/ci_26292817/doctors-medical-center-ends-emergency-ambulance-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">emergency ambulance patients\u003c/a> and reduced inpatient beds from 140 to 50. Just days after the ambulance diversion began, a \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/08/28/options-outlined-in-doctors-medical-center-court-hearing/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/08/28/options-outlined-in-doctors-medical-center-court-hearing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">group of doctors, nurses and advocates sued\u003c/a> Contra Costa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\">“I am glad the governor joined with us to help ensure health care access for the residents of West Contra Costa County,” Skinner said.\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\">Senator Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley) was a co-author of the bill.\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_5990\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 620px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/05/Vaccination-Large-Jeff-J-Mitchell-Getty-e1411754682989.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-5990\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/05/Vaccination-Large-Jeff-J-Mitchell-Getty-620x398.jpg\" alt=\"(Jeff J. Mitchell: Getty Images)\" width=\"620\" height=\"398\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Jeff J. Mitchell: Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Statewide, there has been a dramatic increase in parents choosing not to vaccinate their children. The rate of parents opting out by filing what's called a \"personal belief exemption,\" or PBE, doubled over seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Parents check a school's test scores in advance. Why not vaccine rates?\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, State of Health \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/09/11/vaccine-opt-out-rate-doubled-in-7-years-look-up-your-school-online/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/09/11/vaccine-opt-out-rate-doubled-in-7-years-look-up-your-school-online/\" target=\"_blank\">published a chart\u003c/a> where people could look up any elementary school in California and see the PBE rate at their children's schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours after we published, Cosmo Garvin of Sacramento sent me a tweet. \"Really nice work,\" the tweet said. \"But just found out PBE rate at my kid's school is 32 percent. Should I freak out?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thirty-two percent. That means one in three kids is not vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Assessing Risk to Your Own Child\u003c/strong>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garvin's son is 9 years old and just transferred into a new school in Sacramento, a public school with a private school name: Alice Birney Waldorf-Inspired K-8. \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/09/11/vaccine-opt-out-rate-doubled-in-7-years-look-up-your-school-online/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/09/11/vaccine-opt-out-rate-doubled-in-7-years-look-up-your-school-online/\" target=\"_blank\">Our chart \u003c/a>includes data over a seven-year period, from the 2007-2008 school year to the 2013-2014 school year, the most recent for which data are available. The PBE rate at Alice Birney during that stretch has ranged from 24 to 33 percent, meaning in the best year, only about three-fourths of children are vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're wondering what a preferred vaccination rate is, officials would love to see it as close to 100 percent as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garvin said he and his wife made a conscious decision to go to this school, but \"it never occurred to me to check the vaccination rate,\" he told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/169088755&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His major question was what the low vaccination rate at the school meant to the health of his son. The state's own \u003ca title=\"http://www.shotsforschool.org/k-12/how-doing/\" href=\"http://www.shotsforschool.org/k-12/how-doing/\" target=\"_blank\">tool to assess vulnerability of a school\u003c/a> showed that Alice Birney's low vaccination rate put it in the \"most vulnerable\" category. If a disease is introduced into a community with such a low vaccination rate, there is danger it would spread -- and fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what should Garvin do? He says both his children, his 9-year-old and an older son in high school, are up to date for all recommended vaccines. He also said they are healthy, with no chronic conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gil Chavez, state epidemiologist with the California Department of Public Health, was reassuring.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\"> \"As long as children are up to date on vaccines,\" he said, \"they should be protected against vaccine-preventable diseases.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for those kids who are not vaccinated, the risks are great. California saw a measles outbreak earlier this year and a high percentage of the cases occurred in people \u003ca title=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2014/03/18/42870/majority-of-states-measles-cases-were-unvaccinated/\" href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2014/03/18/42870/majority-of-states-measles-cases-were-unvaccinated/\" target=\"_blank\">who were intentionally unvaccinated.\u003c/a> In 2010, a whooping cough epidemic swept across California. Ten infants died. Babies cannot be vaccinated against whooping cough until they are 2 months old and are reliant on the blanket of protection from all the rest of us being vaccinated. Later research showed that \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/09/30/vaccine-refusals-fueled-california-whooping-cough-epidemic-personal-belief-exemption/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/09/30/vaccine-refusals-fueled-california-whooping-cough-epidemic-personal-belief-exemption/\" target=\"_blank\">vaccine refusal fueled the epidemic.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the event of an outbreak, the first thing health officials do is determine who is vaccinated and who is not. Dr. Olivia Kasirye, health officer for Sacramento County, says the county health department is aware of the handful of schools with low vaccination rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Parents need to be aware that if there is a situation with an outbreak, that they can be required to keep their child out of school until the outbreak is over,\" Kasirye said. That could be two weeks, perhaps more, depending on the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gabe Ross, spokesman for the Sacramento City Unified School District, said that it's the district's goal to have \"a 100 percent immunization rate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We work hard at the schools with higher op-out rates to make sure that parents truly understand the issue, truly understand the risk with their kids and are making informed decisions,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Considering Opt-Out Rates in Advance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now let's take it back a step. What about parents who have school choice and are looking at schools? \"A lot of people want to know the test scores before they (select a school),\" Garvin said. \"I feel like (the PBE rate) is something you should know before you go.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of particular note are parents of children who do have a chronic health issue. How much should a school's PBE rate matter to them? \"It's hard to give a blanket answer in a situation like that,\" Kasirye told me, \"but definitely one thing would be to talk to a health care provider and say 'I'm considering this school and this is what I've found out, what are your thoughts.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley pediatrician Olivia Lang has faced that exact issue. Her practice no longer accepts families that refuse all vaccinations for their children. She stressed that she could not make school decision for parents, but did share her medical opinion. \"\u003cb>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"color: black\">I've had parents worry about a school with a 35 percent opt-out rate,\" she said. \"They say, 'Does this pose a risk to my child?' And I've said, 'Yes, it does.' I've had families who've chosen not to attend a certain school because of that.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the state publishes these data, it's become easier for families to take the opt-out rate into account. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garvin's son is 9 years old and just transferred into a new school in Sacramento, a public school with a private school name: Alice Birney Waldorf-Inspired K-8. \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/09/11/vaccine-opt-out-rate-doubled-in-7-years-look-up-your-school-online/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/09/11/vaccine-opt-out-rate-doubled-in-7-years-look-up-your-school-online/\" target=\"_blank\">Our chart \u003c/a>includes data over a seven-year period, from the 2007-2008 school year to the 2013-2014 school year, the most recent for which data are available. The PBE rate at Alice Birney during that stretch has ranged from 24 to 33 percent, meaning in the best year, only about three-fourths of children are vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're wondering what a preferred vaccination rate is, officials would love to see it as close to 100 percent as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garvin said he and his wife made a conscious decision to go to this school, but \"it never occurred to me to check the vaccination rate,\" he told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/169088755&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His major question was what the low vaccination rate at the school meant to the health of his son. The state's own \u003ca title=\"http://www.shotsforschool.org/k-12/how-doing/\" href=\"http://www.shotsforschool.org/k-12/how-doing/\" target=\"_blank\">tool to assess vulnerability of a school\u003c/a> showed that Alice Birney's low vaccination rate put it in the \"most vulnerable\" category. If a disease is introduced into a community with such a low vaccination rate, there is danger it would spread -- and fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what should Garvin do? He says both his children, his 9-year-old and an older son in high school, are up to date for all recommended vaccines. He also said they are healthy, with no chronic conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gil Chavez, state epidemiologist with the California Department of Public Health, was reassuring.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\"> \"As long as children are up to date on vaccines,\" he said, \"they should be protected against vaccine-preventable diseases.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for those kids who are not vaccinated, the risks are great. California saw a measles outbreak earlier this year and a high percentage of the cases occurred in people \u003ca title=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2014/03/18/42870/majority-of-states-measles-cases-were-unvaccinated/\" href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2014/03/18/42870/majority-of-states-measles-cases-were-unvaccinated/\" target=\"_blank\">who were intentionally unvaccinated.\u003c/a> In 2010, a whooping cough epidemic swept across California. Ten infants died. Babies cannot be vaccinated against whooping cough until they are 2 months old and are reliant on the blanket of protection from all the rest of us being vaccinated. Later research showed that \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/09/30/vaccine-refusals-fueled-california-whooping-cough-epidemic-personal-belief-exemption/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/09/30/vaccine-refusals-fueled-california-whooping-cough-epidemic-personal-belief-exemption/\" target=\"_blank\">vaccine refusal fueled the epidemic.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the event of an outbreak, the first thing health officials do is determine who is vaccinated and who is not. Dr. Olivia Kasirye, health officer for Sacramento County, says the county health department is aware of the handful of schools with low vaccination rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Parents need to be aware that if there is a situation with an outbreak, that they can be required to keep their child out of school until the outbreak is over,\" Kasirye said. That could be two weeks, perhaps more, depending on the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gabe Ross, spokesman for the Sacramento City Unified School District, said that it's the district's goal to have \"a 100 percent immunization rate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We work hard at the schools with higher op-out rates to make sure that parents truly understand the issue, truly understand the risk with their kids and are making informed decisions,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Considering Opt-Out Rates in Advance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now let's take it back a step. What about parents who have school choice and are looking at schools? \"A lot of people want to know the test scores before they (select a school),\" Garvin said. \"I feel like (the PBE rate) is something you should know before you go.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of particular note are parents of children who do have a chronic health issue. How much should a school's PBE rate matter to them? \"It's hard to give a blanket answer in a situation like that,\" Kasirye told me, \"but definitely one thing would be to talk to a health care provider and say 'I'm considering this school and this is what I've found out, what are your thoughts.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley pediatrician Olivia Lang has faced that exact issue. Her practice no longer accepts families that refuse all vaccinations for their children. She stressed that she could not make school decision for parents, but did share her medical opinion. \"\u003cb>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"color: black\">I've had parents worry about a school with a 35 percent opt-out rate,\" she said. \"They say, 'Does this pose a risk to my child?' And I've said, 'Yes, it does.' I've had families who've chosen not to attend a certain school because of that.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the state publishes these data, it's become easier for families to take the opt-out rate into account. 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The program has been going for several years and is run by the nonprofit \u003ca title=\"http://freshapproach.org\" href=\"http://freshapproach.org\" target=\"_blank\">Fresh Approach\u003c/a> which provides vouchers for to buy fresh fruits and vegetables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melissa Cannon, a dietitian at the Native American Health Center, reached out to Fresh Approach and asked them to bring VeggieRx to her clinic this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VeggieRx is by far the most popular nutrition class her clinic runs, Cannon says. A big driver, she says: “They get free food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hope of these nutrition programs, Cannon says, is to break down some of the barriers to educating about health and nutrition which can be especially tough for low-income and multi-ethnic families. 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In an ongoing study that links low-income overweight or obese children and families with physical activity programs in San Francisco, Falbe’s team is finding that having someone in the clinic work closely with families and individuals as they sign up, as well as providing one-on-one support in languages other than English, can often be effective in connecting families with community programs and convincing them to continue to attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cannon also says many people she sees are reluctant to shop at farmers markets, a specific barrier that VeggieRx addresses. Her clients tend to see farmers markets as expensive places to shop – and geared to white people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a real stigma attached,” she said. “Most of our population here is multi-ethnic, and that’s a barrier in it of itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresh Approach provides $7 per person per week in vouchers to be used at farmers markets, and participants are drawn to the extra benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to provide enough to allow them to make healthy changes in their household,” said. Laura deTar, nutrition program manager for Fresh Approach\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresh Approach’s dataset is limited but shows effectiveness. In a follow up earlier this year with 13 families who participated in the program in 2012, they found that nearly 70 percent of the families said they were eating more fruits and veggies and were more physically active. 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(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) \" width=\"640\" height=\"401\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A security guard walks the perimeter of the Almaden Reservoir in San Jose. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Public health experts say the state’s historic drought is partly to blame for the recent rise in West Nile virus infections. \u003ca title=\"California's West Nile Virus page\" href=\"http://westnile.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Cases this year\u003c/a> have more than doubled to 311, compared to the same time last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West Nile virus is spread by mosquitoes. They contract the virus when they feed on infected birds, then spread it to other birds they bite next. A shortage of water can accelerate this cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we have less water, birds and mosquitoes are seeking out the same water sources, and therefore are more likely to come in to closer proximity to one another, thus amplifying the virus,” said Vicki Kramer, chief of vector-borne diseases at the state department of public health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, the water sources that do exist are more likely to stagnate. Stagnant water creates an excellent habitat for mosquitoes to breed.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes more mosquitoes and it makes them faster,” said Roger Nasci, chief of arboviral diseases branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High temperatures contribute, as well, and can be especially bad when it doesn’t cool down at night. That’s been the case in Orange County this year. It has the highest number of West Nile cases in humans this year – 116.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local officials have been waiting for the right weather conditions to spray pesticides to kill mosquitoes and have been surveying the region by plane for backyard pools and birdbaths that have stagnated. High foreclosure rates in the region led to an increase in abandoned pools in recent years, and continue to be a factor in the current elevated rates of West Nile, Kramer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While case numbers are high in Orange and Los Angeles, some counties in Northern California have a higher concentration of cases. Glenn County, north of Sacramento, has the highest incidence of West Nile at 35 cases per 100,000 people. Orange County's incidence is just four per 100,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a broader type of habitat available for mosquitoes in the Sacramento Valley compared to Bay Area counties, for instance,” Kramer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This broader habitat draws two types of mosquitoes to the region: rural mosquitoes that breed in the rice fields and urban mosquitoes in surrounding towns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So those two mosquitoes working together will further amplify the virus,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of people infected with West Nile virus show no symptoms. Twenty percent get flu-like aches and fever, and only 1.5 percent develop the \u003ca title=\"West Nile Virus Making the Rounds in California\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/07/31/west-nile-virus-making-its-summer-trek-across-california/\" target=\"_blank\">most severe neuroinvasive form\u003c/a> of the disease. Ten percent of those who get very sick, die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far this year, 12 people in California have died, mainly the elderly and people with underlying conditions like diabetes or high blood pressure. In total, California has the most reported cases of West Nile in the country – 311 cases as of last Wednesday, September 17. Texas is second with 98 cases and Louisiana is third with 78, according to CDC data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Nasci warned that the season for West Nile has yet to peak. Temperatures and infection rates are still rising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s still a substantial period of the year left,” he said. “How long that risk persists will depend on how many more mosquitoes are produced, how much longer they’re going to live, how many birds are susceptible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health officials recommend \u003ca title=\"http://westnile.ca.gov/news.php?id=128\" href=\"http://westnile.ca.gov/news.php?id=128\" target=\"_blank\">individuals protect themselves\u003c/a> from infection by wearing long sleeves and long pants, and using insect repellent.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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He threw tantrums and hardly made eye contact. “You just see all your dreams go by the wayside.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Wilsons enrolled him in the Regional Center of the East Bay, where children under 3 receive state-funded services. He began ABA therapy, which breaks down everyday skills into bite-sized, learnable portions, then uses repetition, memorization and rewards to reinforce or discourage behaviors. Parents learn to lead their child in the therapy as well. In the video, Jazzmon works with Timothy -- or Bubba as she calls him. Seeing him now, it's hard to believe how affected he was at a younger age.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148089\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/files/2014/09/Yes-Board.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148089\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/files/2014/09/Yes-Board-640x360.png\" alt=\"Jazzmon praises Timothy during an Applied Behavioral Analysis session.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jazzmon praises Timothy during an applied behavior analysis session. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In therapy, Timothy first learned to point, and eventually to say, “I want.” He started to make swift progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re celebrating things others take for granted,\" Jazzmon says, including little things like simply knowing when her son wants some juice. \"ABA gives back the typical experiences (that) you dreamed of when your child was born.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like the door was cracked for hope,” says Jazzmon. “I thought autism was a death sentence -- we’re not going to go anywhere, do anything -- but this therapy gives you your life back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'When I first heard about (the new Medi-Cal coverage) I thought to myself: my child is going to have a life. He’s going to be able to get a job.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Then the family moved to the Sacramento area and found themselves in a Catch-22. Because Timothy had made so much progress, he was disqualified from further therapy. State-funded regional centers must triage, taking only the more severe cases of developmental disability, so Timothy was turned away from Alta California Regional Center. School districts also provide therapy for autism, but Timothy was turned away there as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without insurance and unable to afford private ABA, Timothy went without therapy. Jazzmon made a decision. “I need to fight back -- he’s losing years,\" she recalls thinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/09/6692301/early-treatment-may-decrease-autism.html\" target=\"_blank\">A growing body of evidence suggests\u003c/a> that early intervention is key. With therapy, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/magazine/the-kids-who-beat-autism.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw%2C%7B%222%22%3A%22RI%3A12%22%7D&_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">some children stop showing signs of autism altogether\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fearing they would lose the progress they’d made, the family sued the school district and won a legal settlement that provided for Timothy’s ABA for the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, advocates had been lobbying the state and federal government to make ABA a covered benefit under Medi-Cal. Under\u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/07/08/feds-say-autism-aba-therapy-now-covered-as-childrens-medicaid-benefit/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/07/08/feds-say-autism-aba-therapy-now-covered-as-childrens-medicaid-benefit/\" target=\"_blank\"> new federal rules\u003c/a>, that coverage is now reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first heard about [the Medi-Cal coverage], I thought to myself, 'My child is going to have a life. He’s going to be able to get a job. Maybe he’ll even move out of my house one day and have a family,” said Jazzmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148098\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/files/2014/09/bubba-mall3.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148098\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/files/2014/09/bubba-mall3-640x360.png\" alt=\"ABA therapy has helped Timothy with social issues tied to autism spectrum disorder.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ABA therapy has helped Timothy with social issues tied to autism spectrum disorder. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, Timothy looks like a pretty typical 6-year-old, at least at first glance. He loves seaweed chips, dinosaurs, his mommy and Mario Bros. But he still has some work to do to be able to interact with kids his age, says Jazzmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Playing Superman or Spiderman, it takes a lot of imagination and sophistication,\" she says. \"A kid that doesn’t know how to do that becomes isolated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timothy gets anxious around other kids, and doesn’t know how to strike up a conversation or sustain one. “Self-esteem is so important at this age,” says Jazzmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My hope is one day he’ll have friends. I know he can learn that with A.B.A,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>David Gorn of California Healthline contributed to the reporting of this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Effective this week, Medi-Cal now covers a \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/09/15/autism-benefit-finally-a-reality-for-children-on-medi-cal/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/09/15/autism-benefit-finally-a-reality-for-children-on-medi-cal/\" target=\"_blank\">key autism therapy\u003c/a>, and some 12,000 kids stand to benefit statewide. One of the children who will benefit is Timothy Wilson, a bubbly 6-year-old who will now be able to get Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) through Medi-Cal, the state's insurance program for people who are low income. ABA is the clinical standard of care for autism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timothy was 2 when he was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. “He didn’t say mama, didn’t say dada,” says his mother, Jazzmon Wilson. He threw tantrums and hardly made eye contact. “You just see all your dreams go by the wayside.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Wilsons enrolled him in the Regional Center of the East Bay, where children under 3 receive state-funded services. He began ABA therapy, which breaks down everyday skills into bite-sized, learnable portions, then uses repetition, memorization and rewards to reinforce or discourage behaviors. Parents learn to lead their child in the therapy as well. In the video, Jazzmon works with Timothy -- or Bubba as she calls him. Seeing him now, it's hard to believe how affected he was at a younger age.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148089\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/files/2014/09/Yes-Board.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148089\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/files/2014/09/Yes-Board-640x360.png\" alt=\"Jazzmon praises Timothy during an Applied Behavioral Analysis session.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jazzmon praises Timothy during an applied behavior analysis session. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In therapy, Timothy first learned to point, and eventually to say, “I want.” He started to make swift progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re celebrating things others take for granted,\" Jazzmon says, including little things like simply knowing when her son wants some juice. \"ABA gives back the typical experiences (that) you dreamed of when your child was born.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like the door was cracked for hope,” says Jazzmon. “I thought autism was a death sentence -- we’re not going to go anywhere, do anything -- but this therapy gives you your life back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'When I first heard about (the new Medi-Cal coverage) I thought to myself: my child is going to have a life. He’s going to be able to get a job.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Then the family moved to the Sacramento area and found themselves in a Catch-22. Because Timothy had made so much progress, he was disqualified from further therapy. State-funded regional centers must triage, taking only the more severe cases of developmental disability, so Timothy was turned away from Alta California Regional Center. School districts also provide therapy for autism, but Timothy was turned away there as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without insurance and unable to afford private ABA, Timothy went without therapy. Jazzmon made a decision. “I need to fight back -- he’s losing years,\" she recalls thinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/09/6692301/early-treatment-may-decrease-autism.html\" target=\"_blank\">A growing body of evidence suggests\u003c/a> that early intervention is key. With therapy, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/magazine/the-kids-who-beat-autism.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw%2C%7B%222%22%3A%22RI%3A12%22%7D&_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">some children stop showing signs of autism altogether\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fearing they would lose the progress they’d made, the family sued the school district and won a legal settlement that provided for Timothy’s ABA for the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, advocates had been lobbying the state and federal government to make ABA a covered benefit under Medi-Cal. Under\u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/07/08/feds-say-autism-aba-therapy-now-covered-as-childrens-medicaid-benefit/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/07/08/feds-say-autism-aba-therapy-now-covered-as-childrens-medicaid-benefit/\" target=\"_blank\"> new federal rules\u003c/a>, that coverage is now reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first heard about [the Medi-Cal coverage], I thought to myself, 'My child is going to have a life. He’s going to be able to get a job. Maybe he’ll even move out of my house one day and have a family,” said Jazzmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148098\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/files/2014/09/bubba-mall3.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148098\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/files/2014/09/bubba-mall3-640x360.png\" alt=\"ABA therapy has helped Timothy with social issues tied to autism spectrum disorder.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ABA therapy has helped Timothy with social issues tied to autism spectrum disorder. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, Timothy looks like a pretty typical 6-year-old, at least at first glance. He loves seaweed chips, dinosaurs, his mommy and Mario Bros. But he still has some work to do to be able to interact with kids his age, says Jazzmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Playing Superman or Spiderman, it takes a lot of imagination and sophistication,\" she says. \"A kid that doesn’t know how to do that becomes isolated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timothy gets anxious around other kids, and doesn’t know how to strike up a conversation or sustain one. “Self-esteem is so important at this age,” says Jazzmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My hope is one day he’ll have friends. I know he can learn that with A.B.A,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>David Gorn of California Healthline contributed to the reporting of this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21653\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/09/454867296-e1411148473876.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-21653\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/09/454867296-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Adrian Peterson has been suspended from all Minnesota Vikings activities since he was indicted on child abuse charges. (Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adrian Peterson has been suspended from all Minnesota Vikings activities since he was indicted on child abuse charges. (Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Gene Demby\u003c/strong>, \u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/09/19/349668828/a-decision-about-your-children-thats-also-about-your-parents\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/09/19/349668828/a-decision-about-your-children-thats-also-about-your-parents\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past week, Adrian Peterson, the Minnesota Vikings' all-world running back and one of the NFL's biggest stars, has become the face of corporal punishment in America. Peterson turned himself in to police over the weekend on charges of child abuse after he allegedly hit his son with a switch that left welts on his body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Needless to say, people feel very differently about this subject. \"I'm a black guy ... I'm from the South,\" Charles Barkley, the former NBA star, \u003ca title=\"http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/09/charles-barkley-adrian-peterson-video-ray-rice-cbs-nfl-today\" href=\"http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/09/charles-barkley-adrian-peterson-video-ray-rice-cbs-nfl-today\" target=\"_blank\">told a panel on CBS' NFL Today\u003c/a>. \"Whipping — we do that all the time. Every black parent in the South is going to be in jail under those circumstances.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, \u003ca title=\"http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/09/cris-carter-espn-adrian-peterson-vikings\" href=\"http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/09/cris-carter-espn-adrian-peterson-vikings\" target=\"_blank\">a visibly emotional Chris Carter\u003c/a>, who once starred for the Vikings, argued on ESPN's NFL Countdown that corporal discipline was outdated and wasn't solely the province of black folks. \"This goes across all racial lines, ethnicities, religious backgrounds,\" Carter said. \"People believe in disciplining their children. ... It's the 21st century. My mom was wrong. She did the best she could, but she was wrong about some of that stuff she taught me. And I promised my kids I won't teach that mess to them. You can't beat a kid to make them do what they wanna do.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not just the practice of corporal punishment that's contested. Even the words we use are at issue. When\u003ca title=\"https://storify.com/mprnews/gene-demby-s-conservation-on-corporal-punishment\" href=\"https://storify.com/mprnews/gene-demby-s-conservation-on-corporal-punishment\" target=\"_blank\"> I asked folks on Twitter\u003c/a> who were physically disciplined as children how they felt about it as adults, I kept fussing with the wording. For lots of folks, \"spanking,\" \"whupping\" and \"beating\" are simply colloquialisms that refer to the same kinds of behaviors. But \"Were you beaten by your parents?\" sounds like a different and more loaded question than \"Were you spanked or whupped by your parents?\" (Barkley, for one, pointedly criticized the use of the word \"beating\" in media discussions of the Peterson story.) Some folks even have personal taxonomy for the severity of corporal punishment — whereas \"spanking\" might be a swat on the rear or arm, a \"whupping\" or \"beating\" might involve a belt or switch or some other instrument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever language folks employ, very few people who use corporal punishment tend to think of themselves as \"child abusers,\" which underscores just why it's so hard to talk about child abuse. (\"Child abuser\"\u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/04/25/306578018/what-exactly-qualifies-as-racist-anyway\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/04/25/306578018/what-exactly-qualifies-as-racist-anyway\" target=\"_blank\"> is like \"racist\" that way\u003c/a>.) Many of my respondents said they so deeply disliked their parents' approach to corporal punishment that they could not countenance physically disciplining their own kids. Yet many of those same people also very pointedly said they would never characterize their own childhood punishments as \"abuse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think there's a fine line [between punishment and abuse],\" Barkley said. But everyone seems to set that line in different places. There's a bit of the \u003ca title=\"http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/09/27/the-origins-of-justice-stewarts-i-know-it-when-i-see-it/\" href=\"http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/09/27/the-origins-of-justice-stewarts-i-know-it-when-i-see-it/\" target=\"_blank\">Potter Stewart test \u003c/a>in how we think about child abuse: It's not easy to define, but we know it when we see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Black Families And Corporal Punishment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When discussing corporal punishment among black people, people often say that \"whuppings\" are a kind of atavism from slavery. Michael Eric Dyson of Georgetown wrote as much in a \u003ca title=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/opinion/punishment-or-child-abuse.html?_r=0\" href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/opinion/punishment-or-child-abuse.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times op-ed this week.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The lash of the plantation overseer fell heavily on children to whip them into fear of white authority. Terror in the field often gave way to parents beating black children in the shack, or at times in the presence of the slave owner in forced cooperation to break a rebellious child's spirit. Black parents beat their children to keep them from misbehaving in the eyes of whites who had the power to send black youth to their deaths for the slightest offense. Today, many black parents fear that a loose tongue or flash of temper could get their child killed by a trigger-happy cop. They would rather beat their offspring than bury them.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But a sizeable majority of people in the United States, regardless of race, look favorably on corporal punishment. Harry Enten of \u003ca title=\"http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/americans-opinions-on-spanking-vary-by-party-race-region-and-religion/\" href=\"http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/americans-opinions-on-spanking-vary-by-party-race-region-and-religion/\" target=\"_blank\">FiveThirtyEight looked at some polling data\u003c/a> and found that just north of 8 in 10 black people favored corporal punishment. That's higher than white people, but not by a whole lot: 7 in 10 white people favored corporal punishment. (There was a slightly larger gap on this question among people who identified as born-again Christians and those who did not. But again, strong majorities of both groups felt this way — about 80 percent and 65 percent, respectively.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Gershoff, a sociologist at the University of Texas, Austin, told NPR's Robert Siegel that \u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/09/15/348765106/like-adrian-peterson-majority-of-u-s-parents-use-physical-discipline\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/09/15/348765106/like-adrian-peterson-majority-of-u-s-parents-use-physical-discipline\" target=\"_blank\">African-American parents spank more frequently than other groups\u003c/a>, but three-quarters of parents spank their children at least once a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Changing Mores About Childhood And Punishment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While those numbers are pretty strongly pro-spanking, the polls show that support for the practice has been on a very slow decline for a while across all groups. That's probably not too surprising — the idea of not spanking is actually a historically novel idea, and many of our modern conventions of childhood have come into shape over the past 150 years or so. \u003ca title=\"http://www.nber.org/papers/w15477.pdf\" href=\"http://www.nber.org/papers/w15477.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Families used to have many more children,\u003c/a> and those children were put to work in farms, and later in factories. As infant mortality fell and life expectancies started ticking steadily upward, people began to think of childhood as a discrete developmental period that should involve nurturing and protection. The first child labor laws didn't go on the books until the mid-1800s. Government-sponsored child protection services in the U.S. didn't spread in earnest until the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If we've just begun thinking about not spanking, we've also just begun to consider the implications of it. Is spanking harmful? Does not spanking hurt kids? There's been reams of research on these questions over the past half-century or so, and much of it is hotly contested. In 2002, \u003ca title=\"http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2002/06/spanking.aspx\" href=\"http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2002/06/spanking.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Gershoff reviewed nearly 90 studies \u003c/a>about corporal punishment published over more than six decades. She looked for links between childhood corporal punishment and a range of different child behaviors and experiences, like moral internalization, mental health, aggression and criminal or antisocial behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gershoff found that one of the two strongest associations was between the use of corporal punishment and the child's immediate compliance. The other link was between the use of corporal punishment and the physical abuse of the child by the parent. (As she put it, corporal punishment is \"effective in getting children to comply immediately,\" but it can also \"escalate into physical maltreatment.\") Those findings, she wrote, underscored just how complex the debate around physical discipline is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gershoff also wrote that studying the real effects of corporal punishment requires making a distinction between corporal punishment and abuse. Again, that's a hard ask: Parents report on their own tactics in these studies, and they're using different cues about social norms to decide where to draw the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, any possible consequences of spanking (or not) butt up against all of parenthood's more immediate considerations and compromises. Should you spank your 3-year-old for darting out into the street? Will time-out help your kid internalize what he's done to warrant that punishment? These are the kinds of questions that folks grapple with day to day. If there are any long-term effects for a given child on how a parent chooses to answer that question, they might not be apparent until much, much later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our feelings on corporal punishment are inextricably tied to how we were raised. The hundreds of responses I got on Twitter were incredibly varied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I got beatings, and I turned out fine. The world would be better off if more people got whippings as children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I got beatings, and it's a big part of the reason I'm estranged from my parents today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I didn't get beatings because I was quiet and well-behaved. My brother got beatings a lot because he was unruly. There's a lot of lingering resentment between us today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My parents felt like I was judging their parenting when I opted not to whip my own children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our feelings on corporal punishment are very much wrapped up in how we feel about our childhoods and our parents. These are stories that are fundamental to the ways we think of ourselves. But we also often view the way other people answer this question through the prism of our own experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we talk about disciplining children, we're also considering the very specific children in front of us with their own habits and inclinations. We're trying to determine what we think they might need in a given moment — to quit or keep doing that thing they're doing, to be quiet, to be heard. We treat our own histories and outcomes as the definitive study of parenting, and we bring that study's conclusion to our own kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, \u003ca title=\"http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/hssng/is_there_any_scientific_consensus_on_the/c1y3zn1\" href=\"http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/hssng/is_there_any_scientific_consensus_on_the/c1y3zn1\" target=\"_blank\">as one presumable parent on Reddit quipped\u003c/a>: \"I'm eight years into a decades-long study of this with three research subjects. I'll try to keep you updated when I have results.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever language folks employ, very few people who use corporal punishment tend to think of themselves as \"child abusers,\" which underscores just why it's so hard to talk about child abuse. (\"Child abuser\"\u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/04/25/306578018/what-exactly-qualifies-as-racist-anyway\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/04/25/306578018/what-exactly-qualifies-as-racist-anyway\" target=\"_blank\"> is like \"racist\" that way\u003c/a>.) Many of my respondents said they so deeply disliked their parents' approach to corporal punishment that they could not countenance physically disciplining their own kids. Yet many of those same people also very pointedly said they would never characterize their own childhood punishments as \"abuse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think there's a fine line [between punishment and abuse],\" Barkley said. But everyone seems to set that line in different places. There's a bit of the \u003ca title=\"http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/09/27/the-origins-of-justice-stewarts-i-know-it-when-i-see-it/\" href=\"http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/09/27/the-origins-of-justice-stewarts-i-know-it-when-i-see-it/\" target=\"_blank\">Potter Stewart test \u003c/a>in how we think about child abuse: It's not easy to define, but we know it when we see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Black Families And Corporal Punishment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When discussing corporal punishment among black people, people often say that \"whuppings\" are a kind of atavism from slavery. Michael Eric Dyson of Georgetown wrote as much in a \u003ca title=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/opinion/punishment-or-child-abuse.html?_r=0\" href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/opinion/punishment-or-child-abuse.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times op-ed this week.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The lash of the plantation overseer fell heavily on children to whip them into fear of white authority. Terror in the field often gave way to parents beating black children in the shack, or at times in the presence of the slave owner in forced cooperation to break a rebellious child's spirit. Black parents beat their children to keep them from misbehaving in the eyes of whites who had the power to send black youth to their deaths for the slightest offense. Today, many black parents fear that a loose tongue or flash of temper could get their child killed by a trigger-happy cop. They would rather beat their offspring than bury them.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But a sizeable majority of people in the United States, regardless of race, look favorably on corporal punishment. Harry Enten of \u003ca title=\"http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/americans-opinions-on-spanking-vary-by-party-race-region-and-religion/\" href=\"http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/americans-opinions-on-spanking-vary-by-party-race-region-and-religion/\" target=\"_blank\">FiveThirtyEight looked at some polling data\u003c/a> and found that just north of 8 in 10 black people favored corporal punishment. That's higher than white people, but not by a whole lot: 7 in 10 white people favored corporal punishment. (There was a slightly larger gap on this question among people who identified as born-again Christians and those who did not. But again, strong majorities of both groups felt this way — about 80 percent and 65 percent, respectively.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Gershoff, a sociologist at the University of Texas, Austin, told NPR's Robert Siegel that \u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/09/15/348765106/like-adrian-peterson-majority-of-u-s-parents-use-physical-discipline\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/09/15/348765106/like-adrian-peterson-majority-of-u-s-parents-use-physical-discipline\" target=\"_blank\">African-American parents spank more frequently than other groups\u003c/a>, but three-quarters of parents spank their children at least once a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Changing Mores About Childhood And Punishment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While those numbers are pretty strongly pro-spanking, the polls show that support for the practice has been on a very slow decline for a while across all groups. That's probably not too surprising — the idea of not spanking is actually a historically novel idea, and many of our modern conventions of childhood have come into shape over the past 150 years or so. \u003ca title=\"http://www.nber.org/papers/w15477.pdf\" href=\"http://www.nber.org/papers/w15477.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Families used to have many more children,\u003c/a> and those children were put to work in farms, and later in factories. As infant mortality fell and life expectancies started ticking steadily upward, people began to think of childhood as a discrete developmental period that should involve nurturing and protection. The first child labor laws didn't go on the books until the mid-1800s. Government-sponsored child protection services in the U.S. didn't spread in earnest until the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If we've just begun thinking about not spanking, we've also just begun to consider the implications of it. Is spanking harmful? Does not spanking hurt kids? There's been reams of research on these questions over the past half-century or so, and much of it is hotly contested. In 2002, \u003ca title=\"http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2002/06/spanking.aspx\" href=\"http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2002/06/spanking.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Gershoff reviewed nearly 90 studies \u003c/a>about corporal punishment published over more than six decades. She looked for links between childhood corporal punishment and a range of different child behaviors and experiences, like moral internalization, mental health, aggression and criminal or antisocial behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gershoff found that one of the two strongest associations was between the use of corporal punishment and the child's immediate compliance. The other link was between the use of corporal punishment and the physical abuse of the child by the parent. (As she put it, corporal punishment is \"effective in getting children to comply immediately,\" but it can also \"escalate into physical maltreatment.\") Those findings, she wrote, underscored just how complex the debate around physical discipline is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gershoff also wrote that studying the real effects of corporal punishment requires making a distinction between corporal punishment and abuse. Again, that's a hard ask: Parents report on their own tactics in these studies, and they're using different cues about social norms to decide where to draw the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, any possible consequences of spanking (or not) butt up against all of parenthood's more immediate considerations and compromises. Should you spank your 3-year-old for darting out into the street? Will time-out help your kid internalize what he's done to warrant that punishment? These are the kinds of questions that folks grapple with day to day. If there are any long-term effects for a given child on how a parent chooses to answer that question, they might not be apparent until much, much later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our feelings on corporal punishment are inextricably tied to how we were raised. The hundreds of responses I got on Twitter were incredibly varied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I got beatings, and I turned out fine. The world would be better off if more people got whippings as children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I got beatings, and it's a big part of the reason I'm estranged from my parents today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I didn't get beatings because I was quiet and well-behaved. My brother got beatings a lot because he was unruly. There's a lot of lingering resentment between us today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My parents felt like I was judging their parenting when I opted not to whip my own children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our feelings on corporal punishment are very much wrapped up in how we feel about our childhoods and our parents. These are stories that are fundamental to the ways we think of ourselves. But we also often view the way other people answer this question through the prism of our own experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we talk about disciplining children, we're also considering the very specific children in front of us with their own habits and inclinations. We're trying to determine what we think they might need in a given moment — to quit or keep doing that thing they're doing, to be quiet, to be heard. We treat our own histories and outcomes as the definitive study of parenting, and we bring that study's conclusion to our own kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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