Just a guess on my part.
“A child advocate’s job is to look for abuse”
I know what you mean by that. at work, we have inspectors who have to find “something” or else they would be perceived by their bosses as not doing their jobs.
however, in these cases, I think its the government putting pressure on social workers and hospitals to make sure the word is out, don’t even think about disciplining your kids via spankings, so the state is the de facto parent.
to be clear, i’m saying this case is about spankings.
these people are not medical experts, this is why genuine cases that have nothing to do with child abuse are incorrectly classified as such.
just as many arson/accident investigators really have no serious forensictraining and have sent a lot of people to jail for screwing up an assessment of a fire scene, what caused it, where it started, etc. I watched a program that showed just how bad some of these people were at their jobs compared to people who had years of training determining causes of fires and how they spread, what patterns they make, how things vary depending on if it’s started on purpose vs other reasons. Lotsa people got screwed based on totally wrong assessments. jail time and in some cases where people died, murder charges.
Once I was knocked unconscious.
Never was it the result of my parents actions.
In today's world I would be a foster child.