Of the many different types of child abuse, one form has more recently come to the forefront, Munchausen by proxy syndrome (MBPS). MBPS is a mental illness of the parent whereby they inflict harm to their child to glean pity and attention from the medical community. The name, Munchausen, comes from a similar mental illness in which an individual will harm themselves for this same form of attention called Munchausen Syndrome. MBPS has only recently been identified in medical literature in 1977. For years doctors had been mystified by children who would suffer countless conflicting symptoms, often causing them to search for and diagnose these children with ext
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