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So, what I am planning on writing about is Munchausen By Proxy Syndrome. Munchausen By Proxy Syndrome is a form of child abuse. It is when a mother makes up fake illness' for their children, and make them believe they are sick. By doing this the mother is getting attention by doctors, attention that she can not get else where. This form of child abuse is a lot harder to investigate. There is a book, which is a true story, called Sickened. Sickened is written by Julie Gregory and her mother had Munchausen By Proxy Syndrome. Julie did not realize until she had a psychology class in college that her mother had this syndrome. Her whole life she spent in a hospital getting unnecessary surgery. It went as far as Julie getting open heart surgery to find the problem to the fake illness' her mother would make up. I found this quite interesting, because in our minds we wonder how a mother could possibly do this to their child. Also, how does one find enough evidence to diagnose or prosecute a person with this illness. After reading the book Sickened, it made me want to research more about this illness, find out the statistics, like what is the percentage of mothers prosecuted for child abuse? What are the similarities between the mothers who show signs of having this illness. Also, how the children who were abused got over it, if they did at all, and if those children have children would they be more likely to do posses the same illness?