NICHD/NIH/DHEW/DHHS Historical Documents
RE:. Child Abuse and Neglect Research

Selected government documents which establish the historical role of the NICHD/NIH (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health can be found at: http://www.violence.de/history/coverup.html. Additional documentation will be posted, as resources permit.

The unlawful abandonment by the NICHD/NIH of its agency responsibility in the late 1970s to:

a) lawfully continue to support basic research on child abuse and neglect that violated specific directives from former DHEW Secretary Caspar Weinberger to the NICHD to accelerate its support of research on the causes and consequences of violence against children;

b) lawfully inform the Congress and the Public of the scientific breakthroughs made in the 1960s and 1970s that failed bonding in the mother-infant/child relationship leads to developmental brain disorders that mediate depression, impulse dyscontrol, drug abuse/addiction, suicide, sexual violence and homicidal violence;

c) lawfully recommend to the DHEW/DHHS, the Congress and The White House the establishment of national health policies and programs that are known to be effective in the prevention of depression, impulse dyscontrol, drug abuse/addiction, suicide, sexual violence and homicidal violence in this nation; and

d) unlawfully continue its suppression of the NICHD/NIH history of significant scientific breakthroughs in the 1960s and 1970s from the Congress and the Public and failure to act upon this acknowledge has led to the epidemics of depression, drug abuse and addiction, sexual violence and suicidal deaths of our young that is now being experienced a generation later. Suicides have doubled in the 5-14 year age group over this past generation and more children and youth (5-24 year age group) have committed suicide over these past ten years than have all American combat deaths in the ten year Vietnam War.

The NICHD/NIH/DHHS have betrayed the children and families of America by withholding vital scientific information from America's parents of the vital necessity of developing strong affectional somatic bonds between mother and infant/child. This strong somatic intimate affectional bond between mother-infant/child is necessary for normal brain development of their infant/child and is essential for the normal development of emotional-social-sexual behaviors and the prevention of depression, impulse dyscontrol, drug abuse/addiction, massive psychiatric medications of our children and youth, sexual violence, suicidal and homicidal violence.
The most recent appeal to DHHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson (21 June 2001) to correct this historical national tragedy and to implement the necessary national health policies and programs to support mothers being nurturing mothers for the prevention of these national epidemics of depression, substance abuse and violence has been ignored, as has the Clinton-Shalala Administration and prior Administrations before it have ignored. The consequence of the continuation of these failures by the NIH/DHHS to take corrective actions will be the continuation of the epidemics of depression, drug abuse/addictions; massive psychiatric medications of our children and youth, impulse dyscontrol, sexual violence and the violence of suicidal and homicidal deaths that have become so much a part of America. This letter can be seen at: http://www.ttfuture/thompson/lt.html. A more detailed history can be found at: http://www.violence.de/prescott/report/part1.html